An attempt to link Jews with Communism failed today when a number of Nazi leaflets were found among bundles of Communist literature planted by unknown persons among tombstones of the new Jewish cemetery here. The Nazi leaflets had evidently been accidentally included.
The Nazi-controlled Czech newspapers have started a campaign demanding introduction of the Nuremberg race laws in the “protectorate” of Bohemia-Moravia. Rumors spread that President Emil Hacha would return from the Hitler birthday celebrations in Berlin with orders to introduce the anti-Semitic laws immediately.
To celebrate the German leader’s fiftieth birthday yesterday, the municipality of Assig decided to confiscate the beautiful gardens formerly belonging to the Petschek family, wealthy Jewish industrialists, and present them to the community.
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