Regulation Requiring Jews To Change Their Names, August 1938 
 Regulation Requiring Jews To Change Their Names, August 1938 
 Source: Reichsgesetzblatt, I, 1938, p. 1044. 
 Second Regulation for the Implementation of the Law Regarding the Changing of Family Names and Given Names, August 17, 1938 
 … § 2 1) Insofar as Jews have given names other than those which they are permitted to bear according to § 1,* they are required as from January 1, 1939, to take an additional given name; males will take the given name Israel, females the given name Sara…. 
 Berlin, August 17, 1938 
 The Reich Minister of the Interior 
 signed for Dr. Stuckart 
 The Reich Minister of Justice 
 Dr. Guertner 
 The reference is to conspicuously Jewish names, which were published in a separate list.