The latest of a series of desecrations of Jewish cemeteries in various parts of Germany was reported today from Diespeck. A number of tombstones were overturned and others broken. The local police have instituted an investigation. The desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Germany began some years ago and now these acts of vandals are numbered in the eighties.
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