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Document · 1933.05.30
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Extract from the "Irish Press": S. Lester's report on the Bernheim Petition, the Jew of Upper Silesia, protesting against the treatment of Jews in that part of Germany and the discriminatory character of German legislation, the German Government intended to contest the legality of the petition on the ground that Franz Bernheim was not a born Silesian.

Document · 1933.05.31
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Extract from the "Chicago Tribune" (Paris): Germany objected that the Bernheim petition was invalid, the Council of the League of Nations decided to appoint three jurists to make a report on the legality of the Bernheim petition complaining that Germany had infringed the rights of the Jewish minority in Upper Silesia, the Council's reporter declared that the German Government's anti-Semitic measures clearly violated the provisions of the German-Polish Pact guaranteeing the minorities in Upper Silesia.