full screenHelmut Schmidt 2009. Stock photography. Photo: Daniel Roland/AP/TT
The grave of West Germany’s former chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his wife Hannelore “Loki” Schmidt has been desecrated with a swastika, the police announced.
– The swastikas painted in red were discovered on Friday evening on their grave in the Hamburg cemetery and were immediately removed, the police say.
Who is behind the desecration is not known, nor is the motive, according to the police.
The Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt led the then West Germany from 1974 to 1982. He was born in 1918 and Saturday was his birth date.
Schmidt died in 2015.