The seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth desecrations of Jewish cemeteries were reported today. The Jewish cemetery in the town of Preussich-Holland, East Prussia, had 5 tombstones demolished, the mortuary ruined and a number of other things burned. Walter Werner, 17 years old, was arrested as a vandal. Tombstones too, were were demolished in Georgensgemuende near Nuerenberg. Police dogs searching for the vandals have thus far been unsuccessful.
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