The director of the Bavarian Memorials Foundation, Karl Freller, described the damage to the memorial to the deported Jews in Würzburg as a “disgrace.” “This monument is dedicated to those Jews from the city of Würzburg and Lower Franconia whose right to life was taken away from them between 1941 and 1944,” emphasized Freller on Sunday. Of the 2,069 people who were deported from Würzburg, just 63 survived. “How hateful towards Jews must a person be who desecrates the memory of the murdered?” asked Freller. On Friday it became known that a previously unknown perpetrator had damaged the memorial for Jewish Nazi victims in front of Würzburg main train station in the previous days. The memorial “DenkOrt Deportations 1941-1944” consists, among other things, of several pieces of luggage attached to concrete blocks. Now part of a suitcase was violently broken off. The police state security took over the investigation. A police spokesman said it was still unclear whether the incident was a politically motivated act with an anti-Semitic background.
A swastika was again sprayed on a building in Nuremberg. The Middle Franconia police headquarters said on Sunday that the graffiti, measuring approximately 1.5 by 1.5 meters, was sprayed with black paint on the facade of a supermarket building between Thursday and Saturday. Just a few days earlier, right-wing extremist graffiti on the Zeppelin stand on the former Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg caused horror. In both cases, the Special Commissariat for State Security Crimes took over the investigation. From the Zeppelin stand, Adolf Hitler and other Nazi greats followed the Wehrmacht and Reich Labor Service marches during the Nazi party rallies between 1933 and 1938. Today the Zeppelin Grandstand and the Zeppelin Field are a learning and meeting place for dealing with the Nazi era. In the days before that incident, there had already been several anti-Semitic incidents, including graffiti, in the Central Franconian city.