Anti-Semitic graffiti has appeared across Berlin. A Soviet war memorial in Treptow, in former East Berlin, was the latest site defaced when police found a spray-painted Star of David there Oct.18. The incidents apparently began Oct. 14, when stars were found painted on the Anne Frank Center and on the gravesites of Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Mann and Johannes Becher, among other locations.
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