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A Mausoleum at the Weissensee cemetery.
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BERLIN (AFP)---Unknown assailants vandalized overnight a Jewish cemetery in Berlin, Europe's largest, knocking over 23 gravestones and 10 smaller markers, police said Tuesday.
"An anti-Semitic motive for the destruction cannot be ruled out," a police statement said, which also said police had opened an investigation.
The Weissensee cemetery was opened in 1880 and holds 115,600 graves.
Some of its mausolea were designed by famed Bauhaus architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.
