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Article: Jewish cemetery desecrations cast shadow in Germany.(Opinion)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 25, 1999
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Last month at Sachsenhausen, a former Nazi concentration camp in Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder pledged, in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, that Germany would combat anti-Semitism and racism. His speech underscored the importance of memory for modern Germany.
Two weeks later there was virtually no public response to the most extensive desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Germany since World War II. On the first weekend in October, vandals overturned 103 gravestones at Berlin's Weissensee cemetery, Europe's largest Jewish cemetery.
It was not front-page news in major newspapers, there was no immediate condemnation by a major ...