Hugo Tuskeny, notorious Czech anti-Semite, was sentenced to life imprisonment here yesterday by a People Court for spreading fascist propaganda during the occupation.
Tuskany, a journalist, broadcast anti-Jewish slandere and wrote many articles against the Jews which the Nazis spread throughout Czechoslovakia. At the trial Tuskany asserted that he was an anti-Semite “by conscientious conviction.”
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