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German neo-Nazis attack Jewish memorial -- TV

10 Nov 2006 08:06:59 GMT
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BERLIN, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A group of German neo-Nazis, some shouting "Sieg Heil", rampaged in the eastern city of Frankfurt on Oder and destroyed wreaths placed to mark the anniversary of the 1938 Nazi pogrom against the Jews, German TV said on Friday.

German television network ZDF reported the neo-Nazis tore apart floral wreaths and threw away candles placed at a memorial marking a destroyed synagogue in the Polish border city late on Thursday -- 68 years after the Nazis' Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass".

A spokeswoman for the Frankfurt on Oder police said she could not confirm the report and that the state prosecutors office was responsible. The state prosecutors office was not immediately available for comment.

German television reported that 19 people between the ages of 15 and 24 were detained after the attack.

Earlier in the day President Horst Koehler, in a speech broadcast on national television as he attended the consecration of a new synagogue in Munich, warned that anti-Semitism was still present in Germany.

The new synagogue is near the building where Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels delivered the speech that paved the way for the Nov. 9-10, 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom.

Roused by the speech, mobs destroyed hundreds of synagogues across Germany and in parts of Austria, ransacked Jewish homes and stores and attacked Jews, in some cases beating them to death.

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