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(to abate)
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. Whereas the targets of the most notorious racist attacks (to be)
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persons — foreign 
asylum-seekers or Turkish “guest-workers” — the targets of the anti-Semitic incidents (to tend)
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for most of this period to have a strictly symbolic character. Indeed, it could hardly have been 
otherwise. After all, as an obvious legacy of the Nazi regime’s “Jewish policy,” there (to be)
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until 
recently an almost infinitesimally small number of persons of Jewish ancestry living in Germany.
Thus, the anti-Semites in Germany (to have)
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 to content themselves largely with attacks on the 
residual artifacts of an earlier Jewish existence — Jewish cemeteries or the few remaining syna-
gogues — or on memorials to the events which (to extinguish)
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that existence. On the night of 
September 4–5, 2002, for example, vandals (to set)
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fire to the so-called Museum of the Death 
March in the Belower Forest. The museum (to owe)
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its name to one of the final chilling episodes 
in the history of the Third Reich. In April 1945, as allied forces (to close)
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on Berlin, inmates of the 
nearby Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps (to evacuate)
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by the SS and (to 
lead)
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on a forced march toward the north and west. Thousands (to die)
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, hundreds of them in 
the Belower Forest, falling victim to exhaustion, the elements, and the exactions of their guards. The 
arson attack on the Belower memorial (to occur)
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exactly 10 years to the day after the “Jewish bar-
racks” at the Sachsenhausen camp (to destroy)
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in an earlier arson attack. The perpetrators of the 
latest attack (to spray-paint)
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swastikas and SS runes on memorial columns standing across from 
the museum building. On the columns’ pedestal, in meter-high letters running three meters across, 
they (to spray-paint)
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the phrase “Juden haben kurze Beine”: “Jews (to have)
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short legs.” The phrase 
(to make)
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allusion to the German proverb “lies (to have)
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short legs,” implying that their credibility 
is short-lived, and hence indirectly to what Holocaust deniers (to label)
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the “Auschwitz lie.”
The destruction of the Museum of the Death March (to do)
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receive some coverage in the 
American press, but the everyday acts of anti-Semitic vandalism that (to become)
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