In the Jewish cemetery of the German city of Bochum, some 50 tombs have been found with stickers in memory of Hitler deputy Rudolf Heß attached. A police investigation has been opened following the incident which took place during the night of Sunday to Monday. The stickers refer to the 17th anniversary of Heß' death. Nazi symbols and denying the Holocaust are prohibited by law in Germany, but wearing a T-shirt merely having Heß' name on it is not.
On Saturday, police detained more than 100 people, mainly far-right extremists, following a demonstration and counter-demonstration in the southeastern town of Wunsiedel where the former leading Nazi was buried after committing suicide in a Berlin prison in 1987 at age 93. Heß was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials in 1946.
