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Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, site of the three-power conference after the end of the Second World War
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The attack on art in museums on Berlin's Spree island, in which strangers could spray around 70 cultural objects with oil for over an hour on the day of German reunification, evidently had models.
As »Zeit Online« and Deutschlandfunk report, there was a similar act not only in the summer at the Wewelsburg near Paderborn.
Just two weeks before the Berlin attack, a similar incident was discovered in the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam.
There, strangers are said to have attacked the sculpture of an Amazon by the French sculptor Louis Tuaillon.
In the act in the Wewelsburg near Paderborn, traces of oil were found on around 50 objects as early as July.
In the media reports it is emphasized that both places could have been relevant targets from a right-wing or right-wing esoteric point of view.
Immediately after the end of the Second World War, the Potsdam Conference took place at Cecilienhof Palace in July and August 1945, at which the USA, Great Britain and the Soviet Union discussed the reorganization of Germany.
The attacked Amazon sculpture is reportedly in the former study of the American delegation.
Further traces of oil were found in the fireplace room and in the room in which the historical exhibition on the history of the palace and the Potsdam conference is introduced.
The Wewelsburg near Paderborn is also a historically charged place.
It was used by the National Socialists as a place of worship and meeting place.
According to the local museum there, the sun wheel motif on the floor of the "Obergruppenführer's hall" has been "stylized and abused as a symbol of recognition and salvation in right-wing extremist circles around the world".
According to reports, traces of oil were found in front of the locked hall.
In the oil attacks on Berlin's Museum Island, there was speculation about a connection between the acts and messages that the conspiracy ideologist Attila Hildmann shared on Telegram.
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