The Peoples Court of Bratislava has begun trying eight former members of the wartime Slovak Parliament for collaboration with the Nazis and promoting anti-Jewish legislation.
One of the eight, Eugen Gusukiewicz, publicly joined the fascist Hlinka Guard and was responsible for the persecution and arrest of many Jews. The crimes of a second defendant, Pavel Cernogorsky, are so numerous that on some counts he will be tried by a second court, after the present trial is completed.
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