A scandal of major proportions, involving high officials entrusted with the “Aryanization” of Jewish property, has rocked the Slovakian puppet government, according to a report published here today in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
The report states that the wives of Koso, a departmental chief of the Ministry of the Interior in charge of administering confiscated Jewish property, and Benuschka, chief of the political police, who also had a finger in the “Aryanization” pie, were apprehended by German currency control officers as they attempted to cross the border into Switzerland with 20 kilograms of gold Jewelry hidden on their persons.
The pro-Nazi Prague press reaching here today carries articles ridiculing the call of the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile to Czechs in the Protectorate to prevent the planned German sterilization of Czech Jews. The Nazi-supported newspapers claim that the Czech people have more important things to do than worry about Jews.
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