A gas bomb was thrown into a Hamburg movie theater last night during a screening of the Polish film, “Requiem for Half a Million, ” which depicts the tragedy of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Second World War.
During the commotion which followed the bombing, unknown persons shouted anti-Jewish slogans. The showing of the film was discontinued for the rest of the evening.
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