Anton Vasek, former head of the department of Jewish affairs in the pro-Nazi puppet Slovak state, was today sentenced to be hanged by a People’s Court here.
He was convicted of responsibility for the deportation of 50,000 Czechoslovakian Jews to German death camps.
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