The municipality of Munich-Cladbach today informed the Jewish Community that the city would defray the expenses of repairing the roof of the synagogue broken by the police when they searched for arms allegedly hidden there.
The search for arms, begun in the Jewish cemetery and continued in the synagogue, followed the receipt of an anonymous letter by the police, which charged that the Jews secreted arms in both these places.
The action of the police in accepting as bonafide the charges in an anonymous
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