A cornerstone was laid for a Jewish community center in Munich on the 65th anniversary of the Kristallnacht. The ceremony was seen as sign of confidence in the future of Jewish life in Germany, despite the recent arrest of neo-Nazis who allegedly had planned to set off a bomb at the ceremony.
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