Note 315 — V. EVIDENCE CONCERNING PRINCIPAL ISSUES IN THE CASE (continued 7)

This ordinance was promulgated in the 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, part I, page 1044. It provided that beginning 1 January 1939, male Jews must add “Israel” and female Jews “Sara” as their first or middle names unless they already used such names. This provision applied to all German Jews but not to Jews in Austria or Jews of foreign nationality. The aim was to identify Jewish persons as Jews by their names.