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World War II Tombstones With Swastikas Removed From Texas Cemetery
New York Post ^
| December 26, 2020
| Elizabeth Elizalde
Posted on 12/27/2020 10:35:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
Two German WWII tombstones at a Texas veterans cemetery — each bearing Nazi swastikas — have been removed and replaced with new ones that do not use the symbol.
The 1943 gravestones belonging to German prisoners of war Alfred Kafka and Georg Forst at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery featured an Iron Cross with a swastika in the middle, and the phrase, “He died far from his home for the Leader (Führer), people and fatherland.”
Cemetary workers removed the stones on Wednesday.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Germany; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: burials; gravedesecration; graves; nikkisfault; swastikas; texas; tombstones; vandalism; waronhistory; worldwarii; ww2
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To: PIF
Consider all the brands of beer produced in America at one time. They were all German. I grew up in northern NJ. At one time there was the Budweiser brewery here, Schiltz, Schaefer, Ballentine, Pabst, Rhinegold, Kruger. All gone now.
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posted on
12/28/2020 8:45:23 AM PST
by
jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: Jeepers43
"There is literally no stopping the people who are now going around looking for any reason whatsoever to purge something from our national conscience." I doubt if they will ever decide that the pyramids were built by evil tyrants using slaves because it would be a lot of work to tear them down.
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posted on
12/28/2020 8:50:03 AM PST
by
itsahoot
(correct is necessary to read my posts understanding them is another matter.)
To: jmacusa
Pabst still around, crappy as always
None of then as good as real german beer in germany
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posted on
12/28/2020 9:16:07 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: PIF
Schaefer has to be the absolute worst tasting beer ever brewed.
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posted on
12/28/2020 9:23:23 AM PST
by
jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: HKMk23
The Japanese killed, tortured and raped their way across Asia. Their statistic brutality against American POWs included cannibalism.
Taken as a whole, their military was the ISIS of the 1930-40’s, only at far greater scale.
The respect due to them was expressed correctly with flamethrowers and atomic bombs.
To: mad_as_he$$
Visit Fredericksburg, TX. The old downtown looks exactly like Bavaria. Love Fredericksburg, some of the best German restaurants in the country there. They also have the WWII Pacific War Museum there. And a lot of cool vinyards.
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posted on
12/28/2020 9:56:21 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: PIF
Pabst still around, crappy as always
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posted on
12/28/2020 9:57:16 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Bull Snipe
“Our Germans are better than their Germans!”
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posted on
12/28/2020 9:58:27 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: nickcarraway
Why would these have been allowed in 1943, when the U.S. was at war with Nazi Germany?Well, and in 1953, 1963,1973,1983,1993,2003, and 2013 for that matter.
The current Brown Scare, which has reached the point of hysteria among young people, is psychologically quite interesting. In 1962, with millions of living Nazis, we had Hogan's Heroes and movies with gallant and honorable German soldiers like Battle of the Bulge. Now that the youngest living Nazi is 93 years old, we have panic.
Desecrating war graves is of course contemptible, wherever located.
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posted on
12/28/2020 10:01:28 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning)
To: Jim Noble
In Normandy, not far from the American cemetary, is a very nicely kept cemetary for the German soliders who fell in the days following D-Day.
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posted on
12/28/2020 10:03:05 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: nickcarraway
"Did those POWs end up as U.S. citizens?"
Not the dead ones.
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posted on
12/28/2020 10:51:31 AM PST
by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: nickcarraway
"Did those POWs end up as U.S. citizens?"
Not the dead ones.
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posted on
12/28/2020 10:53:07 AM PST
by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: carcraft
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posted on
12/28/2020 10:55:12 AM PST
by
Fedora
To: jmacusa
The Wereth 11 Memorial in Wereth, Belgium, is dedicated to the 11 black U.S. soldiers
who were killed in the hamlet in 1944 and to all black American soldiers who served
during World War II.
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posted on
12/28/2020 11:09:07 AM PST
by
deport
To: deport
There’s now a movie about this tragedy.
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posted on
12/28/2020 11:20:21 AM PST
by
jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: nickcarraway
At the time this may have in accordance with their wishes, who knows.
Frankly I could care less, should have left them alone.
Given the people we did business with after thwart and bringing all those rocket scientists over here, does it really matter.
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posted on
12/28/2020 11:23:47 AM PST
by
Captain Peter Blood
(https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
To: deport
In my best high school German I think that reads(in the way Germans would speak) “Here were on 17 December 1944 11 US soldiers by the SS were shot’’.
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posted on
12/28/2020 11:25:27 AM PST
by
jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: jmacusa
It list the names but they are blurred.
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posted on
12/28/2020 11:29:23 AM PST
by
deport
To: Bull Snipe
It’s possible the headstone was supplied to the POWs to carve for their comrade; or, they gave instructions.
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posted on
12/28/2020 11:39:13 AM PST
by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
To: Captain Peter Blood
In accordance with whose wishes? Enemies of the United States?
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