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Students Arrested in Austria for Desecration of Jewish Cemetery

December 21, 1961
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Police announced today that two medical students, arrested in the desecration of the Innsbruck Jewish cemetery two weeks ago, had confessed their guilt. The students, Bruno Schraff and Peter Porsche, admitted they knocked over some 40 tombstones, some of which were broken.

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