Josef Tiso, former head of the pro-Nazi puppet slovak state, was hanged here today. Among the crimes for which he was convicted was sponsibility for the deportation of thousands of Slovak Jews to Nazi death camps, ?d the promilgation of anti-Jewish legislation which rivalled the Nuremberg Laws.
Anti-Semitic leaflets have been distributed in various parts of Slovakia and Anti-Jewish feeling has spread through the province following Tiso’s conviction. In ?atislava, however, all is quiet and there have been no demonstrations against the ?ws.
A People’s Court in Prague today sentenced a former Gestapo officer, Herman ##eler, to 20 years imprisonment. Keeler, who was convicted of charges of cruelty Czechs and Jews, was a friend and bodyguard of the former Mufti of Jerusalem when was in Berlin.
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