Neo-Nazis are behind the destruction of 11 "stumbling block" Holocaust memorials, say police in the German city of Greifswald.
The only neo-Nazi state in the world today is the one built by 'survivors of the
Holocaust'
The vandalism in the eastern Germany city was discovered Nov. 9, the 74th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews.
According
to the Die Welt newspaper, the brass plaques, which bear the names of
murdered Jews and are placed outside their former homes as memorials,
were pried loose.
Knut Abramowski, president of the
Police Headquarters of Neubrandenburg, reportedly has offered a reward
of more than $3,000 for information leading to the arrest of those
responsible for the vandalism, which he called a "malicious act."
A state police investigation is under way, according to Spiegel Online.
Police
suspect there may be a connection between the crime and a gathering of
some 100 neo-Nazis in the neighboring city of Wolgast, Spiegel reported.
Wolgast Mayor Artur Koenig of the Christian Democratic Party said that
"people who still refuse to believe that our Jewish citizens were
exterminated in the Nazi era will not gain the upper hand."
German
artist Gunter Demnig originated the idea for theStolpersteine, or
“stumbling blocks,” project in the mid-1990s after hearing an elderly
woman deny that there had been any Holocaust victims in her town.
Since
2003, more than 30,000 such brass memorials have been installed across
Germany and in other European countries. In 2005, Demnig won an
Obermayer German Jewish History Award, which honors non-Jewish Germans
who contributed toward recording or preserving the Jewish history of
their communities.
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