Slovakian Jews have been ordered to increase the width of the yellow Mogen Davids which they are forced to wear from six centimetres, approximately two inches, to ten centimetres, approximately three inches, under a decree issued early this week by Minister of the Interior Sano Mach, the Donau Zeitung reports today.
The order cites the alleged “resentment” felt by the general populace at some Jews’ failure to wear the Star of David, as the reason for ordering larger badges. At the same time, Jews were ordered to surrender the greater portion of their clothing and any textiles in their possession under the pretext that they have recently purchased large quantities of these articles.
Mach announced, the Nazi paper states, that the Hlinka Guard, the Slovakian storm-trooper organization, and the S.S. men have been placed in charge of enforcing the new regulations. They have also been entrusted with supervising the transfer of all Slovakian Jews to internment camps in the seventeen ghetto communities where Jews are to be confined until Mach has solved the “final problem of the emigration and expulsion of all Jews from Slovakia,” the Donau Zeitung adds.
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