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Translation of document 3334-PS
OFFICIAL GAZETTE FOR THE OCCUPIED DUTCH
TERRITORIES
YEAR 1940
[Verordnungsblatt fuer die besetzten
Niederlaendischen Gebiete]
Part 42, Page 761.
231
Decree of the Reich Commissioner for the occupied
Dutch Territories concerning the employment of
Germans in Jewish households.
By virtue of section 5 of the edict of the Fuehrer
on the execution of governmental authority in the
Netherlands of 18 May 1940 (RGBI. I. S. 118) I
decree:
Section 1
(1) German Nationals of German or related blood cannot be
employed in households of which a Jew is the head, nor in
families
of which a Jew is a permanent or temporary member
for a non-interrupted period of more than four
weeks.
(2) In the sense of paragraph 1 are considered as Jews,
those who according to the regulation of section 4 of decree
Nr. 189/1940 concerning the registration of enterprises, are
Jews or are considered as such. Employed in a household are
those who, in order to work there, are entirely or partially
temporarily or continuously a member of the household for
those who perform daily household work or other daily work
directly or indirectly connected with the household without
being a member thereof.
(3) In exception to the regulations set forth in section 1,
employment based on an existing agreement is permissible:
(1) from the time this decree becomes effective until 1
February 1941;
(2) from the date on which occurs the fact confirming the
regulation according to section 1 until the earliest date on
which the employer can terminate the contract, however for a
maximum of 30 days only.
Section 2
(1) Contracts are void inasmuch as they contain the
obligation for employment forbidden according to section 1.
(2) The fact that the definitions of section 1 paragraph
can or will be applied to a contract, does not set forth an
important reason for the employer in the sense of article
1639.P, section 1 or the Netherlands civil law.
Sections 3
(1) Employment of German Nationals violating the law of
section 1 will be punished with imprisonment up to one year
and a fine up to ten thousand guilders or one of these
penalties.
(2) The prosecution of a person not of German or Netherland
nationality nor stateless requires the consent of the Reich
commissioner for the occupied Netherland territories.
(3) Deeds according to section 1 are punishable offenses in
the sense of paragraph 2 section 2 of the decree Nr5.
52/1940 of the German jurisdiction for penal cases.
Section 4
The Reich commissioner for the occupied Netherland
territories may grant exemptions of the
regulations of this decree.
Section 5
This decree becomes effective on the day of its
publication.
The Hague, 19 December 1940
The Reich commissioner for the
occupied Dutch Territories
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