A campaign aimed at offsetting the decline in anti-Jewish feelings in Slovakia, which has been noticeable since the Axis defeat in North Africa, is now being conducted by the German press in Bratislava under instructions from the Nazi Propaganda Ministry in Berlin.
Slovak newspapers published in the German language, which reached here today, carry articles complaining that “Jews reappear from their hiding places and behave impudently.” At the same time the articles point out that anti-Jewish activities in Slovakia “have noticeably relaxed and have given way to incomprehensible negligence. Certain Jews have even gone so far as to appear in the streets without the yellow badges, the Nazi papers reveal.
The Schwarze Korps, organ of the Gestapo, which was received here today, sharply attacks “privileged” Jews in the Reich, who are married to “Aryan” women and whose children are being reared as Christians. It demands that these Jews be forced to wear yellow Mogen David badges and be obliged to observe the other restrictions imposed on Jews.
“The Jew eternally remains what he is,” the Schwarze Korps says, “and forever his hatred against all that is not Jewish is burning within him, whether he is dressed like a Polish Jew or whether he walks about in clothes of German style. Therefore, all Jews must suffer the same fate, which is to be total and indivisible.”
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