dietary difficulties

dietary difficulties
   the barring of Jews from the German Imperial navy
   German anti-Semitism was not a Nazi invention:
    Jews unwilling to give up their faith and be baptized were barred from the Imperial Navy, the official excuse being 'dietary difficulties'. (R. Massie, 1992)

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