Word: seligenstadt
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...Cologne, hoodlums smeared swastikas and the words "Jews Out" on a new synagogue that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had helped dedicate three months earlier. They daubed paint on a monument to Jewish victims of Hitler. This was just the beginning, but it quickly inspired imitators.* In the Hessian town of Seligenstadt, an 85-year-old Jew received a letter threatening him with crucifixion. Vandals scrawled "Death to the Jews" in red paint on park benches in Braunschweig, and in Rheydt the word "Swine" was scratched on a Jew's shopwindow. In the Ruhr, and to the north near Hamburg, swastikas...
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