Vandals damaged and in some cases forcibly removed memorial plaques bearing the names of Holocaust victims from a wall at the Ahlem Memorial in Hanover. “In the process, an inscription for the political victims of the Nazi regime was also completely torn out of the wall,” according to a statement issued by the local authorities. The police have started investigations into Sunday’s crime, that the regional administration see as likely to have been motivated by far-right extremism. The memorial’s Wall of Names commemorates the victims of Nazism who were deported and killed and bears the names of…