LAW EVADED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 248, 19 October 1937, Page 12

LAW EVADED

MARRIED IN GLASGOW YOUNG GERMAN LOVERS Dr. Eduard Marx, stoutish, smiling • German with a Jewish grandfather, and fair-haired Fraulein Use Gene, [dainty, pure Aryan, evaded Germany's anti-Jewish marriage laws. They were married in the Glasgow offices of the legal firm of J. Anderson, Dunlop and Co. by a German-speaking lawyer, Mr. John Hepburn. The sheriff afterwards confirmed the ceremony. I It was three weeks earlier that the young couple went to Glasgow from Berlin. They told their German friends they were visiting Mrs. Friebe, one of Use’s relatives who lives in Scotland. They took separate lodgings in Bath Street, Glasgow. Twenty-one days passed the statutory residential period for marriage. They talked to no one, and went sight-seeing like ordinary tourists. Fraulein Use wore a sprig of heather in her coat when the young doctor took her to the solicitors’ office. “No Jews.” He .said afterwards: “Over in Gerimany it lakes six months and much trouble to marry. The two people [must produce documentary evidence.

They have to show no Jewish blood. “We are no Jews. But in Berlin, my part-ancestry it might become known. Perhaps they will not let us marry. So we come to Scotland. It is a holiday. “When we marry. It is incidental. — you say? Nobody asks questions.” The doctor, in his sky blue sports jacket, squeezed his wife’s hand. A few minutes earlier she had whispered to him before the Scottish lawyer the words of an old German love song: “True love even to the grave swear I to thee with heart and hand.” Herr Doctor and Frau Marx ran for the Coronation Scot train at 1.30. On arrival at Euston six and a half hours later, the bride, freckled like a schoolgirl, still clutching a bunch of carnations in one hand. The other clutched her husband’s arm. She blushed prettily when congratulated. Dr. Marx was boisterous. “It is a romance,” he said, shaking hands for the third time. “Please understand we could marry in Germany. It is not impossible, no no. But we choose this way. It is better so. We are good Germans. We are not Jews.” Back to Berlin “But please—can you tell me a good hotel, not too much money, because what do you say, we are broken. You understand?” When Frau Marx was asked when they were returning to Germany her blue eyes lost their sparkle. Fingers closed again on her husband’s arm. “We go to-morrow night,” she said. Under the Nazi law a pure Aryan may marry a German with no more than one German grandparent if documentary evidence is first produced.