Defying Gestapo orders, a wave of pro-Jewish demonstrations is now sweeping the Czech Protectorate to a point where the authorities have been compelled to take strong police precautions, it was reported here today from Berlin.
The report, carried by the Swiss newspapers, states that the Czech population, resentful of the anti-Jewish measures instituted this week by Reinhard Heydrich, the new German “protector,” organized public demonstrations expressing sympathy for the Jews. Although dispersed by the police, the demonstrations were repeated and continue to spring up in various Czech towns.
The drastic anti-Jewish laws proclaimed this week by Heydrich are only the forerunners of more severe decrees which will be issued for the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia, the Berlin report states. It reveals that a Jew was executed in Prague yesterday on the charge of illegal slaughter and sale of fifty hogs on the “black market.”
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