German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday condemned a "worrying" resurgence of anti-Semitism in Germany as she spoke in a memorial speech marking 80 years since the Kristallnacht pogrom, CNN reported.

Merkel spoke at Berlin's Rykestrasse Synagogue, one of the 1,400 synagogues that were set ablaze during the 1938 rampage by the Nazi regime against Jewish communities, which caused widespread looting and destruction of Jewish properties across Germany and Austria.

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