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was to conduct its activities. 12 Included in the eleven stated guidelines was the
instruction that all organised activities had to be registered with the Gestapa a
minimum of ten days prior to the execution of any planned activity. The
guidelines explicitly stated that only Jews and ‘non-Aryans’ were permitted to
attend such activities. 13 On 20 August 1935, the office of the State Police for the
Merseburg District dispatched a further memorandum to Magdeburg, instructing
that henceforth any Jewish organisation that was not a member of the
Reichsverband der jüdischen Kulturbünde in Deutschland was to be dissolved,
with the exception of Jewish schools and religious communities. 14 It indicated that
dissolving all unaffiliated organisations would enable a consistent and easier
surveillance of the activities of Jews and that all Zionist activities (with a view to
emigration) were to be encouraged.
As further evidence of this surveillance and separation, the same office issued
instructions on 21 August 1935 that Jews were not to be given information on the
activities of non-Jews, particularly on any business-related matter. 15 In a
comprehensive measure to ensure the tabulation of data on all movements of
Jews, on 2 September 1935, the office of the State Police for the Magdeburg
12 Richtlinien für die Tätigkeit des Reichsverbandes der jüdischen Kulturbünde in
Deutschland, 13. August 1935, Bestand Z.-Dok.001, Signatur Nr. 040, ASGM, p. 74.
For a comprehensive discussion on the history of this organisation, see Akademie der
Künste, ed., Geschlossene Veranstaltung. Der Jüdische Kulturbund in Deutschland
1933–1941 Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1992 and Alan E. Steinweis, “Hans Hinkel and
German Jewry, 1933–1941,” Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, vol. XXXVIII, 1993, pp.
209–219.
13 Ibid., pp. 74–75.
14 Betrifft: Reichsverband der jüdischen Kulturbünde in Deutschland, 20. August
1935, Bestand Z.-Dok.001, Signatur Nr. 042, ASGM, p. 73.
15 Rundschreiben; Betrifft: Auskunftseinholung durch Juden, 21. August 1935,
Collection JM, File 10624, YVA, op. cit., p. 76.