Language:
German
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
14,1 (2001) 159-174
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Antisemitism
;
Mischlinge (Nuremberg Laws of 1935)
Abstract:
Based on a lecture held at the Unversity of Heidelberg, July 2000. States that according to a European convention of 1902, marriages of foreigners in the signatory states were to be regulated by the laws of the state of which the partners were citizens. During the Nazi period, Sweden enforced this convention scrupulously: the Foreign Office issued a directive that no "non-Aryan" was to marry an "Aryan" if one or both were refugees from Germany. Since in Sweden marriage licenses were the province of the Church, it was the local ministers who had to carry out this regulation. Some objected and sought subterfuges in order to conduct such marriages despite the prohibition; but most unquestioningly complied.
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