Severe anti-Jewish disturbances took place in the Slovakian city of Chlumec, home town of police sergeant Pazisky who was killed last week during clashes between the Slovak police and an armed band near the town of Humenne, according to information carried by the Nazi press reaching here today. The Donau Zeitung states that Pazisky’s funeral was followed by “bitter demonstrations” against the Jews.
The Slovak government, following the battle at Humenne, broadcast reports that it was between a group of Slovak police and a “band of Jews seeking to escape deportation.” Other, unbiased reports reaching here from Slovakia during the past week, however, indicated that the group that fought the police were not Jews but Slovaks, dissatisfied with the anti-Jewish persecutions and the general Nazification of their country.
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