Two more incidents of grotesque vandalism in Europe were reported today. The continent is diseased with hatred in our time.
Vandals in Germany have pasted the walls of a Nazi concentration camp memorial with Third Reich newspapers. The damage was carried out at the former Langenstein-Zwieberge camp in the north-central state of Saxony-Anhalt. Copies of newspapers from 1933 to 1945, the years Hitler ruled Germany, were stuck to the walls of buildings there.Posted by Alan at July 29, 2003 05:22 PMLangenstein-Zwieberge was set up in 1944 as a sub-camp for the Buchenwald concentration camp to provide cheap labour for the construction of an underground aircraft factory nearby. About 5,000 people were held there, and more than half are believed to have died. It was liberated by American forces in 1945.
via Ananova
Vandals knocked over 45 headstones at a military cemetery for British soldiers, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission said Tuesday. Two of the markers were destroyed at the Saint Aubert Cemetery, which is near the northern city of Cambrai and is the burial site of 435 soldiers killed in World War I, most of them British.
The headstones were believed to have been toppled Sunday evening, but police were still investigating, Peter Francis, spokesman for the War Graves Commission, said.
In April, graffiti denouncing the U.S.-led war in Iraq was scrawled on monuments at a World War I cemetery in Etaples, near Calais. This time, however, no political, racial or religious inscriptions were left, the commission said. "It looks like a completely mindless act of vandalism,'' Francis said.
via The Guardian