Police probe Nazi slogans on Welsh war memorial
NORTH WALES police are investigating the daubing of a war memorial with swastikas and messages of hate in Rhyl.
The memorial on the seafront in the coastal town, which once had a Jewish community, commemorates 300 local servicemen and women.
Richard Kenrick, organiser of the local Poppy Appeal for the Royal British Legion, told the BBC the graffiti referred to Nazi Germany and the murder of Jews. Most of it is written in German, but one slogan was written in English — “Choke on chlorine, Tommy” . This appears to refer the gassing of British soldiers in the First World War.
Another, “Yossarian lives”, is probably a reference to Joseph Heller’s satirical Second World War novel Catch-22.
“I have never seen anything like this before,” said Mr Kenrick, who believes it was the work of an adult rather than the “mindless vandalism of a child”.
“Sometimes there’s a bit of damage done to the flowers, but the stones have never been touched,” he added.