A tombstone in the Jewish cemetery at Gleidingen, in the district of Hildesheim, was dragged out during the night and left lying in the road. A swastika was chiselled into the stone and the names of two Nazis in Gleidingen were chiselled on the same side, and a Soviet star on the other. A reward has been offered for the detection of the vandals.
This brings up the number of Jewish cemetery desecrations in Germany to 113.
The “Fuehrer”, the official organ of the Nazis in Baden, publishes an article complaining that the Jews are making a big song about the tombstones in the Jewish cemeteries being torn out of the graves. The truth is, it says, that nobody is touching their cemeteries, but the cemeteries are so neglected that the tombstones fall down on their own.
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