Posted on 10/16/2003 10:05:54 AM PDT by knighthawk
BERLIN (Reuters) - A Jewish cemetery in Germany was desecrated by suspected neo-Nazis who painted swastikas and anti-Jewish statements such as "You got what you deserved" on gravestones, police in the town of Beeskow said Thursday.
It was the latest in a long series of attacks on Jewish cemeteries and followed a similar act of vandalism at a cemetery in the central city of Kassel last weekend when 42 gravestones were painted with the Nazi greetings "Heil Hitler" and "Sieg Heil."
The desecrations also followed the arrests last month of several people with links to the far-right scene suspected of planning a bomb attack on a Jewish institution in Munich.
Police in Beeskow, a small town east of Berlin, said the vandals also painted "Crap on the 6 million lie," a reference to the 6 million Jews killed by Germany in the Holocaust, as well as "Jews keep out" and "Sieg Heil."
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