A resolution demanding the introduction of all the Nuremberg laws into the Nazi-puppet state of Slovakia was adopted by the Hlinka Guard at a conference this week in Bratislava, Slovakian capital, it is reported here today. The conference was presided over by Sano Mach, vice-Premier, who urged that a special law be issued depriving Jews of property acquired during the period of the Czechoslovakian Republic.
Little doubt exists that the anti-Jewish demands of the Hlinka Guard will soon be carried out. In the Eastern part of Slovakia the Jews are already being ordered to wear distinctive armbands so that they may be recognized as Jews. Local restrictions bar them from entering sport grounds, baths and theatres. Radios, cameras and automobiles have been taken from the Jews. They have been forced to move out of certain districts. A number of them, it is reported here, are being transported to camps built in the Jablonka pass where they are required to do forced labor improving the land.
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