Local Slovak officials are spreading anti-Semitic propaganda among Hungarians in southern Slovakia who are being uprocted and sent to the Sudeten area for farm labor, it was revealed here by the Jewish newspaper “Ujelet.”
In a lotter from a Slovakian Jew, it is disclosed that the Slovak authorities are telling the deportees that the Jews have acquired large parcels of land in Sudetend and are demanding slave laborers. The writer warns that unless the propaganda is suppressed, a pogrom of major proportions may break out.
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