TIME
The wallet of every cautious German bulged week ago with an automobile license, a police registration card, a Nazi party card and, for good measure, a passport. Last week Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick stuffed in one more. Hereafter each German must also carry a racial card (sippenblatt: sippe, kin; and blatt, card). After an official investigation of his ancestry, a pure “Aryan” German will be certified as such, an impure one clearly labeled.
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