The Czech Government will shortly proclaim a Jewish law based on the Nazi Nuremberg Laws, it was reported in Prague newspapers reaching here today.
The papers published a communique by the Party of National Unity urging a “political solution of the Jewish problem.” The communique urged withdrawal of the franchise from Jew and a ban on Jewish participation in public institutions. It pointed out that many “non-Aryans” were still acting as mayors of Czech towns, having refused to resign.
The Prague District Court, it was reported, meted out jail terms to a German-Jewish physician and his “Aryan” wife in the first “Rassensehande” (race defilement) trial? the “protectorate.” The physician, Dr. Herbert Levy, was sentenced to two and one-half years in prison and his wife to two years. The couple, who had married in Soviet Russia sorrowing promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws, were arrested last March by the Gestapo as they were about to emigrate to Chile.
The Bratislava brewery, Stein Brothers, has been “Aryanized,” according the reports reports. The brewery was the largest in Slovakia.
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