I do wish they’d stop trying to erase history.
History is history no matter how badly it hurts their feelings.
Leave the dead alone. This continued desecration of graves and monuments is repugnant.
But you’ll limit the placing of Confederate battle flags on the graves of Confederate soldiers buried in National Cemeteries. Hypocrites.
I think the Nazis were one of the most evil forces ever unleashed upon the world, but let the truth be the truth. Those men fought on that side, and that is reality.
A couple of years ago, a flyer from my home town was returned from Germany to be buried in Defuniak Springs.
His B-17 was shot down and he died in a German hospital.
It was always assumed that he was buried in an unmarked grave but research determined that he was given a funeral attended by his fellow POWs and buried with a headstone.
Pretty impressive considering the Germans averaged losing a thousand men a day.
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.
Nazis shouldn’t be buried in a national cemetery. Make a small prisoner cemetery somewhere else on base.
Glad to read this. They SHOULD remain marked as Nazis. Never Forget.
‘The People’s Republik of Madistan’ has done all kinds of damage to one of our historic war-time cemeteries in their never-ending quest to rewrite HISTORY.
Look up ‘Camp Randal’ (Wisconsin) and find out WHY our University of Wisconsin/Madison Football Stadium is so named.
Socialist Democrats destroy EVERYTHING they touch!
EVERYTHING!
Why weren’t the POWs bodies returned to Germany?
Leave it be.
Traveling in South Korea in the 1950s, I often over-nighted at Buddhist monasteries where I knew I could stay for practically nothing. The monasteries’ locations were indicated on the map with swastikas.
This reminds me of what Germany has done. They barred the display of any Nazi symbols and, basically, any discussion of that part of their history. If you talk about Nazism there in front of the wrong people, you can wind up arrested. They don’t have uninhibited free speech rights there.
It happened, and no matter what, that won’t change. Those soldiers died fighting for the Reich, most likely something that believed in strongly. It should just be left alone. Removing the symbols won’t solve anything, and would only serve to dumb down the populace.
OMFG, mofo’ing people and their need for historical revisionism.
Wish they would take all their collective sensibilities and shove them up their own arses!
I bet that's a lie and the group is the usual evil Freedom From Religion group that makes money from donors by threatening lawsuits everywhere they can find a cross or religious art on government property.
Oddly enough it was a Nazi that helped save thousands of Chinese lives during the Japanese rape of Nanking.
They are in marked graves. Let them rest in peace.
WE took in a lot of the Afrika Korps boys. They like most of the American boys were conscripts. They weren’t there voluntarily, and they had no Canada to run to. They answered the call just like our guys did. They served proudly, they weren’t there to kill Jews, they were fighting for their buddies, just like our guys, and just as proud of their country. Right or wrong it was their country. If there was a Maltese cross on their graves, it may not have ever been noticed.
History forgotten is history repeated.