A spokesman for the United States Seventh Army Corps said here today that the recent burning of a wooden cross near the site of the infamous Dachau concentration camp, was “just a bad joke” by some soldiers. It had been believed that the incident was perpetrated by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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