The town council of Ludwigsburg has voted to reject the text of an inscription of a memorial tablet drafted by the local Jewish community to commemorate the destruction of the town synagogue. The Jewish community’s inscription would have noted the fact of destruction, the date and that it had been done by the Nazis
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