The secret police of the former East Germany exhumed the bodies of some 600 Jewish victims of the Nazis and removed their gold teeth, according to The Associated Press, which cited papers newly discovered in Berlin. The gold, dug up in the 1970s, was probably melted down by the East German government.
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