A new wave of Jewish suicides in the Warsaw ghetto is reported by the Koelnische Zeitung, one of the important Nazi newspapers. Starvation in the ghetto is growing more and more acute, the paper said.
Simultaneously, reports from Prague said Baron von Neurath had issued an order requiring all Czech State and Municipal officials to “cooperate” in the spread of anti-Semitism among the Czech population. Czech teachers, the order states, will henceforth be prohibited from giving any instruction, whether public or private, to Jewish children. At the same time Jews in Prague and Bruenn were ordered to do their shopping between 3 and 5 in the afternoon only. Those selling commodities to Jews outside of these “Jewish hours” will be punished by two weeks’ imprisonment.
As the Czech population stubbornly continues to display its sympathies with the Jews, the Prague radio broadcast a warning to non-Jews in the Protectorate that they had “better abstain from maintaining friendly relations with Jews in order to be spared severe consequences, The broadcast added that “radical measures” will soon be announced with a view to put an end to the pro-Jewish feelings which find their expression among the Czechs in various demonstrative ways.
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