Vandals defaced 74 gravestones with Nazi symbols and slogans in the non-Jewish Berlin-Frohman cemetery last night. Police suspect that the perpetrators belong to neo-Nazi groups. Swastikas were smeared on 20 of the gravestones and others were painted with the characters SS in runic letters and such slogans as “Heil Hitler” and ” Juden Raus” (Jews get out). Swastikas and other Nazi symbols were found curved on nearby trees.
Meanwhile, a number of West German newspapers published articles today on Albert Speer, who was Hitler’s Minister for Armament during World War II, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Speer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his part in the Nazis’ forced labor program. He was released from Spandau prison in 1966 and has since published several volumes of memoirs.
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