Czech circles reported here today that new anti-Jewish measures have been adopted in the Protectorate and the puppet state of Slovakia.
A new Slovakian decree, providing for further roundups of Jews for shipment to forced labor camps, stipulates that the Jews will not be released after completion of their terms but will instead be turned over as laborers to the families of mobilized soldiers.
This decree, the Czechs said, has converted the Jews literally into the status of slaves forced to work wherever it pleases the authorities.
In the Protectorate, the Nazi authorities have declared that the law for the protection of tenants does not apply to Jews. Another measure forbids Jews to visit hair dressers between the hours of eight and ten o’clock in the morning.
Declaring that the anti-Jewish measures were stiffening the Czech spirit of resistance and hostility to the German oppressors, Czech circles here said that everything was being done in the occupied countries to turn dissatisfaction of the public against the Jews as a convenient target.
“The shameless, arrogant behavior of the Jews during the mobilization,” was the main topic of an address by Slovak Defeuse Chief General Catlos during a reception for Slovak journalists, they reported.
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