Thirteen gravestones in the 150 year old Jewish cemetery of Dreissigacker, near Meiningen, have been broken down.
Six gravestones have been knocked down and two of them smashed in the Jewish cemetery of Osterburg, in Swabia.
The windows of the synagogue at Chemnitz have been smashed, and at Vietz, swastikas and “Hail Hitler” inscriptions have been painted on the synagogue.
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