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04/30/2008: "Jewish cemetary requiring state-funded refurbishment is conveniently vandalized"

One of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries, the Weissensee cemetery in Berlin, has been attacked by vandals who knocked over 23 headstones and 10 short pillars on Monday night, police said on Tuesday.

The cemetery in the eastern Berlin district of Weissensee contains 115,000 graves and elaborate tombs, most of which predate World War II.

Reports of attacks on Jewish cemeteries are not uncommon in Germany, where synagogues and other Jewish institutions are often under 24-hour police guard.

[ How many people realize that synagogues are under 24 hour armed guard? Maureen Lipman, a Jewish comedienne, said that they are so paranoid that if anyone drops something in a synagogue everyone is terrified a pogrom has started. ]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,550555,00.html