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14 Get Jail Terms for Anti-jewish Incitement in Lithuania

February 2, 1939
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The District Governor of Shavli today sentenced 14 anti-Semites to jail terms ranging from two weeks to a month and fines of 200 to 500 lit ($20 to $50) for anti-Jewish incitement. In passing sentence, he warned that incitement of one section of the population against another and attacks on peaceful citizens would be severely suppressed.

A law for protection of “Lithuanian honor,” modelled after the Nazi Nuremberg laws, prohibiting Jews from employing Lithuanian servant girls, was demanded today by Darbas, official organ of the Lithuanian Chamber of Labor. The paper charged editorially that 20,000 Lithuanian maids were being exploited by Jews and “forced into sexual intercourse.” It was reported here that instruction in racial doctrines has been introduced into the schools of the Nazi-controlled Memel district.

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