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Comments (0)The original Nuremberg Laws documents were transferred to the National Archives in Washington, where they will reside permanently.
The papers, transported Wednesday from the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in California, were signed by Hitler in 1935 and codified the systematic extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany. They are thought to be the only copies of the Nuremberg Laws to exist.
Gen. George Patton, who was given the papers by U.S. soldiers who found them in a German bank vault and then disobeyed orders by bringing them out of Germany, gave the documents to the Huntington in 1945.
The pages specify what made a person Jewish, and stripped those who fell into that category of their German citizenship. The laws were broken down into three broad categories: The Laws for the Safeguard of German Blood and German Honor forbade intermarriage or cohabitation between Aryans and Jews; The Reich’s Citizen Law said German citizens must be of German blood; and the Reich’s Flag Law outlined the Nazi flag.
ADL Disturbed by Attack on Muslim Taxi Driver
The Anti-Defamation League called the stabbing of a Muslim New York City taxi driver a hate crime.
The ADL said Thursday that the stabbing, which took place Tuesday night, was particularly disturbing given the current controversy surrounding the Islamic center planned for near Ground Zero. The ADL has said that the center has a right to be built but that building it so close to Ground Zero would be insensitive to the families of 9/11 victims.
In Tuesday’s incident, Michael Enright allegedly asked taxi driver Ahmed H. Sharif if he was Muslim, then made references to military checkpoints before stabbing him. Enright was charged Wednesday with attempted murder and assault as a hate crime.
“No person should ever be targeted because of their religion or ethnicity, and there is no justification for singling out Muslims,” Ron Meier, ADL’s New York regional director, said in a statement. “It is especially disturbing that this attack occurred amid an atmosphere of elevated anti-Muslim sentiment surrounding the Ground Zero controversy. No matter the passions stirred up by an issue, resorting to anti-Muslim bigotry and violence is unacceptable.”
Suspect Arrested in Robinson Shooting
A suspect has been arrested in the shooting death in New York of a former hip-hop musician turned Orthodox Jew.
Police on Wednesday arrested Eion Klass in the death of Yoseph Robinson, 34, who was shot to death last week at a kosher liquor store in Brooklyn where he worked as a clerk.He died trying to protect his girlfriend during an attempted robbery.
Robinson, born in Jamaica, had recently converted and become an Orthodox Jew.
Klass was released from state prison in October 2009 after serving 11 years for attempted murder, the New York Daily News reported.