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Suspected Neo-Nazis Arrested in Germany

Suspected Neo-Nazis scattered candles and tore up floral wreaths placed at a memorial stone on the 68th anniversary of Kristallnacht, police said Friday. The vandalism came Thursday at a memorial to Kristallnacht, or Night of the Broken Glass -- a prelude to the Holocaust that saw thousands of Jewish homes, synagogues and businesses destroyed in 1938. Police in Frankfurt an der Oder said the group tore up wreaths on a stone marking the site where the synagogue stood before it was burned down on Kristallnacht.
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