The Liquidation of all Jewish retail establishments an Hungary was ordered today by the Hungarian Minister of Commerce in a decree broadcast over the Budapest radio. Local authorities were empowered to confiscate the merchandise and the equipment of such stores. Larger Jewish enterprises, essential for national defense, are to he allowed to continue under the management of commissars appointed by the government, the broadcast stated.
Laszlo Baky, Hungarian Minister of Interior, in a statement issued to the press in Budapest emphasized that “the production and the national economy of Hungary will not be affected by the exclusion of Jews.” There is no obstacle to the “complete solution of the Jewish problem,” he stated. He warned that “appropriate wartime punishment will be imposed upon non-Jews cooperating with Jews in order to evade the confiscation of Jewish property.”
The mayor of Budapest was reported here today to have issued posters under his signature announcing that Jewish children between three and fourteen years of age will not be evacuated from the Hungarian capital. The evacuation of non-Jewish children will continue as a measure of safety against Allied air-raids, the posters said.
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