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THE following is a translation of an extract from a decree of the German Minister of Education entitled “Foreign Travel by University Teachers and Students” and dated December 24, 1936, recently received at NATURE office: “It has frequently been observed of late that Germans and especially professors and students, when travelling abroad for cultural or scientific purposes, have failed to establish contact with their local national official representatives. Such contact is specially important in countries where Jews occupy a predominant influence in cultural affairs, and where emigrants seek to press into the foreground in questions concerning German cultural life. In these countries it is particularly necessary that German national guests, local or official, shall be informed of these local relationships by the official national representatives abroad. I therefore order that all under control of my Ministry who travel abroad for study, research or lectures, or for congresses or similar purposes, shall on their arrival in a foreign country forthwith get into contact Fith the competent local representative of Germany, with the Foreign Organization of the Nazi Party and with the branch office of the German Academic Exchange Service, whenever possible. If this be not 4one, a short report of the reasons must be furnished to me. I take this opportunity to point out that previous decrees concerning foreign journeys are still not always obeyed by all concerned. For example, news of a proposed journey abroad by persons under 4Jontrol of my Office often reaches me first through the German Centre for Congresses. This results in delay, and the person involved not only risks refusal of the necessary foreign exchange, but is also acting in defiance of my orders. I therefore hereby order all controlled by my Office to obey in every detail the Decree on Foreign Travel, and to lay before me, through the official channels, any applications for permission to travel abroad.”
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Regulations for German Scholars Travelling Abroad. Nature 139, 746–747 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139746c0
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