Swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans were painted on monuments for Jewish victims of Nazism interred in the memorial cemetery at Dachau concentration camp site, the Munich district attorney’s office disclosed today.
The defacement took place in the last two days. The intruders painted “Jews out of Germany” and other anti-Jewish and anti-American slogans, along with swastikas, on monuments to the dead.
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