Two men, aged 31 and 25, who were arrested in the investigation of the smearing of swastikas, Stars of David, SS symbols and Nazi slogans in the Rhineland town of Wermelskirchen, have confessed, it was announced today.
The confessions were reported by the North-Rhine Westphalia Ministry of the Interior. The smears appeared on walls and motor cars the night before the opening of the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Two men went on trial in the Brunswick district court today on charges of having desecrated a cemetery for Jewish victims of nazism, at Salzgitter, near Brunswick, four years ago. The men are Eldemuth Fitze and Gunther Sonnemann.
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