Vandals demolished and overturned tombstones in Jewish cemeteries in three cities of Germany today and in a fourth another anti-Semitic disturbance was reported. At Kaiserlautern, a number of young football players destroyed 30 gravestones in the Jewish cemetery, while in Lichtenfels eight gravestones were damaged.
The fence surrounding the synagogue in Labiau was destroyed by a trio composed of a clerk, an ironmonger and electrician who later participated in a Hitlerite meeting. In Hanover a sailor, who together with four youths interrupted a synagogue service, was arrested. The sailor, Wuestner by name, fired two shots and terrified the worshippers. He declared later that he had just come from a Hitlerite meeting.
The Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith today declared that the cause of the frequent anti-Semitic acts of vandalism were the result of the failure of parents to teach the young reverence for Jewish religious places, permitting them to be influenced by Folkist school gangs.
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