Swastikas daubed on German monument to Nazi victims

SOEMMERDA, Germany -- For the second time in days, neo-Nazi graffiti have been scrawled on a German monument commemorating Jewish women and the thousands of concentration camp victims killed on forced marches. Police in the eastern town of Soemmerda said they had no idea who had painted swastikas on the pillar in the night.

The monument marks the last terrible act of the Nazis, who forced weakened inmates of the filthy camps in 1945 to trek away from Allied armies. Thousands died of exhaustion only days before German defeat.

Thuringia state police said neo-Nazis had repeatedly attacked the monument.