The Slovak Government, it was reported here today, has completed preparation of a decree forcing Jews to turn over all immovable property to “Aryans” at a price to be assessed by Government experts and paid in ten year notes.
The decree would serve to deprive Jews of their houses and land. Since few would be able to find apartments in Slovak-owned houses, most of them would be force to leave the Nazi-dominated State.
Enforced emigration from Slovakia would thus keep pace with expulsions from Bohemia-Moravia, where, according to the Protector’s organ Der Neue Tag, the number of the Jews in Prague has been reduced from 100, 000 to 46, 000 in a year and, according to the Fascist organ Vlajka, the Jewish population throughout the Protectorate was 90, 000 on Oct. 1.
In preparation for expulsion of the remaining Jews from the Protectorate, the Nazi authorities in Prague this week transferred all Jews in the Prague Pancras prison, most of whom are refugees from Sudetenland, to a concentration camp near Dresden.
In the Sudetenland, it is reported, Germans are avoiding the buying of property left by emigrating Jews, one of the reasons assertedly being that they doubt the stability of the regime and fear they might ultimately have to return the property to the former Jewish owners.
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