Two new cases of vandalism perpetrated on Jewish cemeteries are reported in the press here.
The Jewish cemetery near Asnabrueck, between the villages Aschendorf and Turdorf was attacked twice, on two successive nights. Tombstones were uprooted and demolished. On the second night the vandals erected a cross over one of the graves.
According to a report in the Communist press, the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Harburg was a horrible act of vandalism. A newly made grave was opened and the body of a young woman buried in the grave exhumed and bound to a tombstone.
The Court of Appeals confirmed a sentence of six months imprisonment imposed by a lower court on Brasseler, a member of the National Socialist Party, who was found guilty of desecrating a synagogue. The court declared that his action was one of unspeakable malice and his punishment should be an exemplary one.
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