Prague radio has charged that Jews collaborated with the Nazis in war crimes committed in Czechoslovakia during World War II. The charges, coupled with attacks on the London-based International Council of Jews from Czechoslovakia, were repeated on three consecutive broadcasts last week. Karl Baum, chairman of the Council, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today that “Readers of the Jewish press need no refutation of this sort of slanderous allegation.”
The broadcasts followed in the wake of a resolution submitted by the Council and adopted unanimously by the British Section of the World Jewish Congress two weeks ago which warned the Prague government to consider the long term consequences of its anti-Semitic campaign. The Council includes many Czech Jews who were forced to flee their homeland when the Warsaw Pact nations led by the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Prague radio claimed there was “historical documentation” to prove that the Jewish Council of Elders in Prague during the Nazi occupation “had its share in the genocide of persons of Czech and Slovak nationality.”
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