The Czech National Committee charged today that the Nazis authorities in the Protectorate were using the Jewish question to Germanize Czech industry, commerce and finance.
Reviewing the first year of the Nazi occupation, the committee said the Reichsprotector, Baron Konstantin von Neurath, had issued a decree classifying as Jewish property any concern whose board of directors contained a single “non-Aryan.” The decree followed refusal of the Czech Government to introduce drastic anti-Jewish laws as demanded by the Nazi authorities.
Effect of the edict, the committee said, was to place in the hands of the Nazis at one stroke a great number of Czech industrial concerns, banks, trust companies, trading firms and factories.
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