Our HQ in Berlin was the General Command for the Luftwaffe - the German Eagle carrying the Swastika was in the floors, inlaid in silver with abalone. It was under the rubber mats placed over them, but we left them there.
Our support units barracks were the training command for the Waffen SS. The lightning bolts were everywhere. We left them there.
Templehoff was the last Luftwaffe base, shaped in a semicircle Luftwaffe Eagle. The swastikas were blown off by the Soviets in 1945, but we left the Eagles.
Let history stand - with all of its ugliness! Without that, we will forget, and go thru it again.
I still tear up when I remember visiting Bergen Belsen, the odor is still there, the lines on the wall showing how deep the bodies were piled. Leave it all alone - a monument to arrogance and stupidity.
And make the Chinese people see it, before they follow Hitler’s path any further.
There was a swastika on the facade of the church Hitler attended as a child.
When were you in Berlin? 1946 Communications Squadron, Tempelhof Central Airport, 84-88.