New anti-Semitic smearings, including some aimed at Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, were found today on three buildings and monuments in Bamberg, the scene earlier this month of one of the most vicious outbreaks of such vandalism in postwar German history.
Anti-Semitic stickers were pasted on the buildings and anti-Semitic scribblings painted on them. One of the scribblings read “This is for Erhard, the Flunkey of the Jews.” The Chancellor visited Bamberg last Sunday to condemn the vandalism.
As in the earlier daubings, in which swastikas and inscriptions were smeared on tombstones in the Bamberg Jewish cemetery and on a monument to the Bamberg synagogue razed by the Nazis in 1938, no traces of the perpetrators were found, despite substantial rewards for such information.
The continued smearings in West German towns are being played down in press, radio and television coverage out of fear that publicity would stimulate more German youths to emulate the vandals.
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