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Mierlo: Vandals deface British WW2 graves in Netherlands
Source: BBC
Mierlo: Vandals deface British WW2 graves in Netherlands
13 September 2019
Vandals have spray-painted graffiti including a big swastika at a British and Commonwealth World War Two cemetery in the Netherlands.
Random letters were daubed on many headstones at the Mierlo cemetery, near Eindhoven in the southern Netherlands.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) said it was "appalled", just days after previous damage to the site.
Later this month Prince Charles will attend a Dutch commemoration of the 1944 Battle of Arnhem.
It will be part of the 75th anniversary of the Allies' liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation.
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13 September 2019
Vandals have spray-painted graffiti including a big swastika at a British and Commonwealth World War Two cemetery in the Netherlands.
Random letters were daubed on many headstones at the Mierlo cemetery, near Eindhoven in the southern Netherlands.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) said it was "appalled", just days after previous damage to the site.
Later this month Prince Charles will attend a Dutch commemoration of the 1944 Battle of Arnhem.
It will be part of the 75th anniversary of the Allies' liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49694653
A big swastika was daubed inside a chapel at the cemetery (EPA)
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