Posted on 06/16/2023 2:57:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove of peace, the South American country's president said Friday.
The 350-kilogram (770-pound) "symbol of violence and war" will be turned into a "symbol of peace and union," President Luis Lacalle Pou told journalists in the capital Montevideo.
The two-meter (6.5-foot)-tall bird with a Nazi swastika gripped in its talons adorned the stern of the Admiral Graf Spee, a battleship involved in one of the first naval skirmishes of World War II.
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The Graf Spee means nothing to Uruguay other than it ran into their port and was scuttled. The new Germans won’t want the eagle and the skin head neo nazis are too few to do anything to get it. Maybe the British Naval museum can arrange a deal for it, its their trophy.
This is Uruguay. They should put it in a Museum. The Nazis didn’t destroy their nation.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.” George Orwell-1984
He had that right, Dec. 7th when the Nazis bombed pearl harbor.
I thought it was Pearl Bailey.
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