A $2,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of anti-Semitic vandals who ravaged two Jewish cemeteries in the state of Baden-Wurtemberg in southwestern Germany last weekend.
The police reported extensive damage to the graves of concentration camp victims at the cemeteries in Vaihingen-Enz and in Markgroningen-Unterriexingen.
They said 138 headstones were daubed with swastikas at Vaihingen and several epitaphs were destroyed beyond repair.
An unspecified number of headstones were overturned at the other cemetery. The walls surrounding both were daubed with Nazi symbols and anti-Semitic slogans.
The savage attacks capped a wave of anti-Semitic vandalism in Baden-Wurtemberg that began in July.
The state prosecution in Stuttgart has opened proceedings against unknown parties for inciting racial hatred, membership in outlawed organizations and damage to the gravestones.
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