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Nazis Officially Destroy Graves of Jewish Dead

June 28, 1933
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The National Socialist Party of Adolf Hither, in its efforts to purge Germany of alien influence has now turned its attentions to the graves of the Jewish dead. The Hitlerized Municipal Council of Munich, by a decree adopted yesterday, orders the graves of two Jews, Kurt Eisner, first Socialist premier of Bavaria, and Gustav Landauer, Socialist writer, “to be obliterated and regarded as expunged, their tombstones to be demolished, the bodies of both to be exhumed and the ashes to be given to the Jewish community.”

Eisner was the victim of monarchistic assassins is 1919.

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