Sublime

The ultrareligious part of the community even greeted the new situation. On September 19, 1935, Der Israelit, the organ of Orthodox German Jewry, after expressing its support for the idea of cultural autonomy and separate education, explicitly welcomed the interdiction of mixed marriages.

Fritz, Harro, Ernst, and Hellmuth were deemed worthy of intense therapeutic support and education, whereas both Elfriede and Margarete were deemed ineducable, of no social worth, unlikely to ever successfully perform ‘domestic duties’ or form ‘personal relationships’. So they were sent off to Am Spiegelgrund. The ‘ineducable’ Elfriede wrote letters