A crowd of Hitlerist troops formed up in military formation in the Rhineland town of Duisburg, following a Hitlerist meeting and marched to the Jewish Community Building, where they started a bombardment with stones, smashing every window in the place.
The police arrived on the scene when the attacking party had already completed its work and had dispersed.
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