The 90,000 Jews remaining in Slovakia were declared by the Nazi press today to be “90,000 enemies” following Hitler’s address in Berlin on Friday, in which he threatened the Jews with “complete annihilation.”
Slovaks were told that they must learn “to loath the Jews” and “drastic measures” were predicted against the Jews of Slovakia in the near future. The Nazi newspapers, in their renewed anti-Jewish outburst, inspired by Hitler’s latest speech also charged the Jews of Slovakia with conducting anti-Slovak sabotage and with “planning a Slovakian defeat.”
Leading in this campaign is the Grenzbote, a Nazi newspaper published in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. The paper carries a violent editorial in which the Slovaks are called upon to “drastically deal” with the Jews. “We must never forget,” the article says, “that the ninety thousand Jews in our country are ninety thousand enemies full of hatred. Daily incidents show that the Jews are planning a Slovakian defeat with Semitic hatred. They are sending anonymous letters to decent Slovakians whom they expect to change sides for fear of their ridiculous threats.”
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