Isn’t it in a museum?
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The Graf Spee was a “destroyer”?
Destroying history, what should be a reminder of our past, always bothered me.
First the “journalist” states a destroyer, then he states a battleship.
Are there any copy editors on the plane?
5.56mm
They could get at least 50 times scrap value selling that item as is. Probably more. Then they could really dress up the Chinese Communist embassy they are about to open.
When the US Army took over a Nazi-era barracks in Germany, they kept the eagle sculptures at the main entrance, chiseled off the swastikas, and painted the head white. Species reassignment surgery, from Reichsadler to American eagle.
Aww isn’t that so sweet and sentimental. We hate nazis so we’re going to melt their nazi stuff. Look at us. If you’ve never read the story of the Graf Spee you really should. It was one of Hitlers Atlantic raiders.
Why would you destroy history?
Not exactly a big fan but it probably should remain as a piece of history.
Why not just cut out the swastika and recast the swastika as a “Peace” symbol of the 1960s. The eagle and wreath are too nice to melt down.
Next, we destroy the Aztec pyramid structures because they conducted human sacrifices on them.
Let’s erase everything, no matter how heinous.
should be in a museum, it is truly a magnificent piece of art.
Hey Uruguay,while you are at it, melt down all your Conquistador stuff,Charrúan indian relics and now that I’m thinking about it, melt down yourselves.
This is the hot new place to retire in the expat world.
History is history— good or bad you do not change it.
Rewriting history always ends well.
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