The last 34 Jewish-owned enterprises in the Nazi puppet-state of Slovakia will have been liquidated by Sunday, according to a report of the Slovakien Economic Office appearing in the Prager Abend, reaching here today.
The report follows a broadcast made over the Bratislava radio this past week-end by Sano Mach, Slovakian Minister of the Interior, in which he claimed that “Slovakian industry was now developing better without Jewish influence,” although it was struggling against “Aryan profiteers.” He asserted that Jewish-owned property belonged to the soldiers at the front because “they sacrificed most.”
Reports reaching here from Slovakia during the past year, since expropriation of Jewish-owned property began, indicated, however, that members of the Slovak bureaucracy and of the storm-troop Hlinka Guard were reaping the benefit from the confiscated enterprises, rather than soldiers at the front.
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