21.   Some Jews say that removing the cross is not the answer.

22.   The Auschwitz council asked that the crosses be removed before the spring, the season when Catholics started planting the crosses this year.

23.   The supreme court ruling did not order Bavaria to remove crosses from schools, but stated only that the obligatory hanging of crosses was unconstitutional.

24.   These crosses were also removed after Jewish protests.

25.   They also want the papal cross removed, but some Jewish figures say a smaller monument that includes a cross would be acceptable.

26.   Touching on another sore point between the two peoples, Kwasniewski pledged to remove large crosses placed at the site of the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz.

27.   The Bavarian church said the ruling harked back to Nazi times when crosses were removed from schools.