The city of Hochneukirch has offered a reward for information leading to the apprehension of a gang responsible for the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in that city, it was learned here today.
Every tombstone, except two, were either overturned or broken by the vandals and all the fencework in the cemetery was smashed and scattered about during a night raid last week. Adult footprints all over the cemetery precluded the possibility of the police whitewashing the incident by blaming it on “playing children,” as has been done in so many other German communities. The destruction was said to be as bad as any wrought during the Nazi regime.
City officials called on Jewish community leaders at Munich-Gladbach, who are responsible for the care of the Hochneukirch cemetery, to express their horror and regret over the incident. They also reported on their efforts to locate the criminals and to repair the damage.
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