Charlotte Kaletta visits Brussels
In an attempt to still be able to marry Fritz Pfeffer, Charlotte Kaletta left for Brussels at the end of June 1939. But because Pfeffer's passport had expired, he was unable to cross the border into Belgium.
After divorcing Vera Bythiner, Fritz Pfeffer got into a relationship with the Catholic Charlotte Kaletta. Because of the 1935 Nuremberg laws, which prohibited marriages between Jews and non-Jews, they could not marry. Since Dutch law followed German law with respect to mixed marriages, German citizens who were not allowed to marry Jews could not do so in the Netherlands either,[1] but they could in Belgium. Like so many others, Fritz and Charlotte wanted to give it a try. And so, Charlotte Kaletta spent some time in that city at the end of June 1939. In her absence, Pfeffer wrote her three letters that have been preserved.[2] Since Pfeffer's passport had expired in January 1939 and the German consulate in Amsterdam refused to renew it,[1] he was unable to cross the Belgian border and the plan came to nothing.