A prison sentence of up to five years was predicted here today by Chief Prosecutor Josef Ostheimer for 20-year-old Reinhard Woitzik, who confessed this weekend that he had smeared the anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas on doxens of tombstones in the Bamberg Jewish cemetery and on a monument to the synagogue razed by the Nazis. The youth, whose father had been a member of Hitler’s SS elite guard, will receive a psychiatric examination.
Police said the youth, who was fired as a dental technician when he failed in an examination, thought his employer was a Jew, and blamed him for his dismissal. The employer, whose office is in a synagogue building, is not Jewish.
The youth’s room was found to be a shrine to the memory of Hitler and the headquarters of Woitzik’s one-man neo-Nazi movement. The room was filled with pictures of Hitler, records of Hitler’s speeches, recordings of Nazi speeches Woitzik had hoped to deliver, and a diary modeled on Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” In his confession, Woitzik said he hated Jews.
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