.c The Associated Press BERLIN (Sept. 6) - German authorities have posted a $10,000 reward for clues leading to an arrest in the worst anti-Semitic attack on a Holocaust memorial in a decade, the firebombing of a museum honoring the victims of a Nazi death march. The attack Thursday night destroyed the main exhibition of the death march museum in the Belower Woods, which detailed how the Nazis drove concentration camp inmates deeper into Germany as the Soviet Army advanced at the end of World War II. Outside the museum, vandals painted a big red swastika and two SS symbols on a memorial, and an anti-Semitic slogan three feet by 18 feet along the base of a large memorial column. More than 45,000 prisoners forced to march from Ravensbrueck and Sachsenhausen, both in Brandenburg state were gathered in the Belower Woods near Wittstock, 65 miles northwest of Berlin, where 700-800 died of exhaustion and hunger within a few days. The area had not seen such a serious attack on a Holocaust site since 1992, when neo-Nazis burned the rebuilt prisoner barracks inside the Sachsenhausen concentration camp outside Berlin. The attack came as a new study by researchers at Berlin's Free University and the University of Leipzig showed anti-Semitism is increasing in Germany, with more than a quarter of respondents telling researchers they believe Jewish influence is too great. According to the survey, which polled 1,001 people in east Germany and 1,050 in the west in April, 28 percent overall believe that Jewish influence is too great, while 32 percent said they partially agreed. Researchers found that higher numbers of people in the former West Germany had such feelings. In 1994, 7 percent of eastern respondents agreed with the statement, compared with 14 percent today. In the west, 17 percent said Jewish influence was too great in 1994 compared with 31 percent today. The survey, which had a margin of error of less than 2 percent, also found a rise in acceptance of the Nazi era, with 17 percent agreeing that ``without the extermination of the Jews, Hitler today would be seen as a great statesman.'' 09/06/02 10:04 EDT Copyright 2002 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. Anti-semitism is on the rise in Europe. I don't get what these freaks are trying to do.. scare Jews? Good luck.
how utterly disgusting. hey...and with polls indicating a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe, let's make sure we really get Europe's input on the situation in the Mid East!!! how about those enlightened Europeans?? without the extermination of Jews, Hitler would have been a great statesman??? wow!! what a proud day for Germany!!!
