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Vandals paint 11 swastikas on Berlin Holocaust memorial
By The Associated Press
Tags: Anti-Semitism, Jewish World 

German Police are searching for vandals who painted 11 swastikas on some of the 2,700 gray slabs of Berlin's Holocaust memorial.

A police statement says the red and black Nazi symbols were discovered by a guard at the monument and were immediately wiped off the seven slabs affected.

The memorial to the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims is a field of gray slabs situated close to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
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It opened to the public in 2005 and is freely accessible around the clock. It has been vandalized several times since then.

The vandalism discovered on Saturday came a week after a memorial to gay victims of the Nazis was also damaged.

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