Nazi authorities in the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate have forbidden “fishing in all forms to persons of Jewish descent,” the newspaper Neuer Tag of Prague reports. Violators of the ruling will be fined up to 5,000 crowns or sentenced to labor gangs for two weeks, it was said. A similar regulation was imposed in Slovakia recently.
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