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Austria - Vandals have defaced a former Nazi concentration camp with anti-Jewish and anti-Turkish graffiti, Austrian authorities said Friday.
The spray-painted graffiti extends about 10 meters (33 feet) along the wall of the former Mauthausen concentration camp, which is now a memorial site, according to police in Upper Austria province. The vandalism was discovered Friday morning and is being investigated, police said.
Local politician Josef Ackerl, a Social Democrat, said the incident showed the urgent need to monitor the extreme right better.
A similar incident happened in February 2009.
The Nazis shot, gassed, beat or worked to death about half the 200,000 inmates in Mauthausen’s main camp or its affiliates. Thee camp got its name from the nearby town of Mauthausen, about 155 kilometers (96 miles) west of Vienna.
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Mar 05, 2010 at 02:35 PM anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
I wasborn in Vienna and survived concentration camp. Mauthausen was the only outside of Poland which had a gas chamber. Austrians had Nazism ingrained in them before the Anschluss. The sad fact is that today there are Yidden with streimlach baking shmura matzes in Austria. We certainly have reached a madreiga.
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Mar 05, 2010 at 02:37 PM Robert Says:Report as Inappropriate
I visited the mauthusen and gunskirchen concentration camp sites about 2 months ago..
there was a vandalism at the gunskirchen memorial that was 90% washed down but still visable.
it seems that a leopard doesn't change its spots.
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Mar 05, 2010 at 04:20 PM anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ I visited the mauthusen and gunskirchen concentration camp sites about 2 months ago..
there was a vandalism at the gunskirchen memorial that was 90% washed down but still visable.
it seems that a leopard doesn't change its spots. ”
You are absolutely right but tell to some of coreligonist {Glaubensgenossen} yesterday a Nazi, Today a Nazi and tomorrow a Nazi. As I said the streimlach are there, and those who went to gas chambers are forgotten and men mach t geld, have all a guten schabbes