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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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: nickcarraway

There were a whole bunch in Wisconsins camps that decided to stay. The camps were vaguely like Hogans Heros but the roles were reversed and the prisoners didnt sneak out they just checked out and promised to come back.


21 posted on 12/27/2020 11:15:47 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: nickcarraway
"Cemetary workers"

Like Cemetary Ridge and Seminery Ridge at Gettysburg.

22 posted on 12/27/2020 11:18:30 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("May You Live in Interesting Times": Ancient Chinese Curse. The Wuhanic Plague: Modern Chinese Curse)
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To: nickcarraway
I agree. Think of it. We fought a war against a belief system that held certain races of people had not right to live simply because of what they were. African-American POWs were horribly treated in many cases by the Germans, particularly by the SS.

Have you ever heard of “The Wereth 11’’? Sad story.

23 posted on 12/27/2020 11:23:00 PM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: Reverend Wright
Maybe you would feel differently if you had a relative who died over there. Over 200k U.S. citizens died in Europe doing WWII.

I don't get this P.C. thing of worshipping the enemies of the U.S.?

24 posted on 12/27/2020 11:23:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Just wait until the muslims finish taking over France and see what they’ll do to American graves in Normandy. I think they already demonstrated a bit in Libya.

This reminds me of the destruction of Indian mound burials like Spiro in Oklahoma or Powell Mound in Illinois or all the mounds under St. Louis. It’s one thing if the descendents of the deceased want to install new headstones or memorials but wrong for those without family connections to do so, even if offended.


25 posted on 12/27/2020 11:26:14 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: DoughtyOne

>>This isn’t going to end well.<<

How long before they shut down Arlington as White Privilege? Or just have a “tomb of the black unknown soldier?”


26 posted on 12/27/2020 11:27:22 PM PST by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of biteme and the whore)
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To: nickcarraway
Did those POWs end up as U.S. citizens?

I grew up near there. There are many stories about some of the prisoners "escaping" from the camp at night to go to the local watering hole...and then going back "home" to the camp. The local population was/is majority German ancestry & it would not have been uncommon for some of the older folks to still be fluent in the language. Don't get me wrong; many of these families had sons in the war FIGHTING the Germans and they were very patriotic.

But, many of the POW's, from what I gathered were pretty damn happy to be in the camp instead of the war, & would have found the local culture to be fairly familiar. Most were sent back to Germany...I suspect not all...it would have been easy to "blend in."

27 posted on 12/27/2020 11:31:34 PM PST by garandgal
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To: nickcarraway

German POW’s helped build Lake Texoma. There were quite a few POW’s in Oklahoma and Texas.


28 posted on 12/27/2020 11:32:12 PM PST by FreedomForce
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To: piasa

If they are willing to kowtow to Nazis, then they probably will be okay with sharia law.


29 posted on 12/27/2020 11:36:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: piasa

An attack on an overseas American cemetery is an attack on America - the grounds are US territory. I hope we fight back.


30 posted on 12/27/2020 11:44:09 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor (Eliminating our enemies in their sleep on Christmas since 1776)
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To: nickcarraway

Quite a few DID become American citizens and rabid ANTI-Nazis after seeing how the regime lied to them.


31 posted on 12/27/2020 11:47:47 PM PST by Cronos ( )
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To: DoughtyOne
"There is literally no stopping the people who are now going around looking for any reason whatsoever to purge something from our national conscience."

But that is the way of all warfare (which we are in at the moment). Cultural destruction is key.

The PLA destroyed 6,000 Tibetan temples in 1959-1961.

In 1999 the Taliban blew up the Bamyan Buddhas.

In 1975 Pol Pot and his henchmen devised Year Zero to signify the end of all previous culture.

There are countless examples of intentional cultural destruction throughout history, all with the same goal which is to destroy history and install "the new way," whatever it might be.

In America's statue destruction last summer (but long preceding and following it to this day) it became patently obvious that America was and is under domestic attack by Marxists, Communists, and just plain old anarchists. Their stated intention and their progrom is to destory American history and culture.

Simple as that. And they're not hiding it at all.

32 posted on 12/27/2020 11:49:35 PM PST by Jeepers43
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To: nickcarraway

The left is rewriting the past so they have an excuse to change the present. Reason enough to stop any such efforts .


33 posted on 12/28/2020 12:03:24 AM PST by Nateman (Democracy dies with voted fraud darkness.)
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To: dfwgator

[“I was one of the lucky ones’’ he told me.]

My grandfather was one of the lucky ones. He escaped in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter Presidency.


34 posted on 12/28/2020 12:07:12 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: stormer

Many German POW’s were assigned to work as farm laborers. The farmers sometimes let them drive the farm trucks into town to pick up supplies at the general store. Nazi flags and framed photos of Hitler were allowed to be placed on the walls INSIDE the prisoner’s barracks at prison camps. The US government allowed that. Trying to deny history is wrong and stupid.


35 posted on 12/28/2020 12:07:19 AM PST by Lockbar (Vlad the Impailer had all the answers.)
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To: Gene Eric

[Stop the removal of the historical artifacts. It’s juvenile.]

Of course it is. It’s what the Left specialize in. Ridiculous agendas and methods. They’ll eventually be eaten by the monsters they created and enabled.

Like those before them, by the time they figure it out (if ever) it will be far, far too late to reverse it.


36 posted on 12/28/2020 12:11:25 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

This is Kafkaesque.


37 posted on 12/28/2020 12:23:26 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: nickcarraway

There is a movie about the POW camps with Roy Scheider. “The Good War.”


38 posted on 12/28/2020 12:31:05 AM PST by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: Jeepers43

I think it’s part of a cultural brainwashing. “Everything you knew to be true is wrong.”


39 posted on 12/28/2020 12:31:09 AM PST by Fido969 (,i.)
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To: DoughtyOne; All

Well stated and accurate in reasoning.

We are being swamped (no pun) by conflicting information, psyops, and weak minded individuals that have one target.

They want to keep those who can think for themselves busy with dealing with trying to correct the garbage they have rained upon us All.


40 posted on 12/28/2020 12:37:37 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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