Nazi officials in the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate have found a new way to extort money from Jews, according to a letter from an escaped Czech, published by the magazine Central European Observer.
When Jews are forced to give up their homes, the letter reveals, they are now compelled to pay a “fee” of 1,000 crowns for cleaning, called “Entjudung” (dejudaization). The letter also states that all Jews must observe an 8 p.m. cur-few and are being forced to emigrate, with not even the aged spared.
The Czechs, according to the writer, are in an only slightly better position. He quotes a saying currently popular in the Protectorate, “between the Jews and the Czechs there is only one day’s difference,” which means that restrictions imposed on the Jews today will be imposed on the Czechs tomorrow.
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