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Berlin monument to Nazi gay victims damaged

17-08-2008 - 02:18

German police say the new memorial in Berlin to gay victims of the Nazis has been damaged by vandals.

Police said Saturday that someone had broken a window on the monument overnight and that they had no immediate suspects.

The window is a key part of the memorial _ allowing visitors to peer into a gray concrete slab to see an image of a same-sex couple kissing.

The memorial was opened in May across the street from the much-larger memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Nazi Germany declared homosexuality an aberration that threatened the German race and sent thousands of gays to concentration camps.

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