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The outer wall with the two watchtowers of the former Dachau camp in 1957 (archive photo)
Photo: Gerhard Rauchwetter / picture alliance / dpa
Between Saturday and Sunday, strangers left a National Socialist symbol in the Dachau concentration camp memorial.
As announced by the Upper Bavaria North Police Headquarters in Ingolstadt, a blue swastika was discovered at the entrance to the former shooting range belonging to the memorial.
The property damage amounted to around 500 euros.
The criminal police took over the investigation.
Using the forbidden swastika symbol constitutes a criminal offense under the Criminal Code.
Nazi slogans on manhole covers
It was only in mid-September that strangers sprayed right-wing extremist symbols and slogans on several manhole covers in the Herbertshausen community not far from the memorial.
Nazi graffiti in black paint were also discovered at bus stops.
Hebertshausen's mayor Richard Reischl (CSU) recommended the perpetrators at that time "urgent political education and a visit to the concentration camp memorial" - also in view of the fact that one of the swastikas had been sprayed the wrong way round.
The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial is located northwest of Munich on the outskirts of the district town of Dachau, which today has almost 47,700 inhabitants.
The memorial was set up in 1965 on the former prison grounds of the Dachau concentration camp.
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