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United States / 21-04-2012
Jewish temple vandalized on Hitler's birthday
Colorado Springs, CO - Vandals painted swastikas on walls, signs and doors of a Colorado Springs Jewish temple early Friday in an apparent hate crime in honor of Adolf Hitler’s birthday.
Caretaker Stan Peters, who lives next door to Temple Beit Torah, said the vandals must have been in a hurry, painting the iconic Nazi symbols and the words “Happy 4:20” on two sides of the building that sits at East Madison and Royer streets, north of downtown Colorado Springs.
The “4:20” markings are in reference to April 20, 1889, the day that Hitler, the Nazi German leader who drove the Holocaust, was born.
