1935

Nuremberg Race Laws and Jewish Physicians: Dismissal of remaining professors of medicine and other state-employed Jewish physicians; Nazis disallow medical licensure for full or half Jews of German citizenship unless they had commenced medical studies before summer of 1933. “Exceptions were possible only when the candidate had a valorous World War I record and a Nordic physique and composure.” Jewish medical students also excluded from nationally sponsored financial aid. By October 1948, quarter- Jews could again be admitted to medical examinations (Kater, 170-71). Finally, via Reich Physicians’ Ordinance of Dec, 1935, no new Jewish candidates (including Mischling down to a quarter Jewish) could henceforth be licensed for medical practice, as long as there was a danger that the proportion of Jews in total Reich’s physicians would exceed that of Jews in the general population (Kater,193). Finally, as of Sept, 1938, all Jewish physicians professionally decertified; those remaining in Germany no longer designated physicians but “sick-treaters” (198, 200).