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The introduction of a yellow badge for Jews in the Czech Pratectorate is demanded by the Nazi press in Prague as a result of the intensified anti-Jewish propaganda which is now being conducted by the Nazi authorities in order to distract the attention of the Czech population from the increasing war complications.
“The introduction of a distinctive mark for Jews would once and for all put an and to the mouth-to-mouth propaganda conducted in the Protectorate against Germany,” the Vacerni Ceske Slove, a Nazi-controlled newspaper writes.” This mark would bring to an and the contacts now maintained between Jews and Czechs and would thus result in discontinuing the perpetual and impertinent violations of the anti-Jewish laws.
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