ABSTRACT
The new laws promulgated at the Nuremberg party conference set the entire life of the Jews living in Germany not only before new tasks but also on a new plane altogether. If [in promulgating these laws] the German government was acting according to the intention of the Führer and Chancellor ‘. . . to create a plane . . . upon which the German people could fi nd a tolerable relationship with the Jewish people’, these laws govern mainly the areas in which the German people does not wish to maintain relations. The fundamental positive constitutional idea [embodied in the laws] is to be found not in the legislation itself but in a commentary [on them] by the editor of the German News Agency. [It is] defi ned by the concept ‘minority’ . . .
