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Germany Condemns Swinish Acts of Antisemitic Vandalism

A pig's head was found stuck to the entrance gate at a Jewish graveyard in the town of Gotha next to a section of cloth with the words "six million lies" written on it.

Police said a blood-red liquid had also been thrown at the gate and that the ground was covered with broken glass -- perhaps a reference to the Night of Broken Glass, the 1938 Nazi pogrom against German Jews.

In Erfurt itself, police said, a memorial plaque at the entrance to another Jewish cemetery was also covered with a blood-colored substance.

German politicians were quick to condemn the acts of desecration.

Read entire article at Deutsche Welle