Posted on Dec 30, 2020
Two Nazi headstones removed from veteran cemetery in Texas
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In May this year, calls from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation for the headstones to be removed were denied by the Department of Veterans Affairs, who maintained that the markers were protected by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
Typically, headstones for foreign troops “list only names and dates of death,” Military Times reported in May, but the two in question also included a swastika engraved in the center and a German inscription that said, “He died far from his home for the Führer, people and fatherland.”
Typically, headstones for foreign troops “list only names and dates of death,” Military Times reported in May, but the two in question also included a swastika engraved in the center and a German inscription that said, “He died far from his home for the Führer, people and fatherland.”
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GySgt Thomas Vick
I can not believe that the VA would do something so ludicrous as this, but then again it's the VA, not to many light bulbs on when this happened.
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Who in the hell would even think of doing something as gross as this, thank God they removed them.
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Shoe on the other foot. They won the war. Its your grave buried on German soil and your headstone has an American flag on it. Should your service to your country and your grave be desecrated because you were on the losing side.
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COL David Turk
SGT (Join to see) - 1. Graves weren’t desecrated. 2. The headstones in question didn’t have a German flag on it. I don’t think it would have been a problem if it had been a German flag, and no references to Hitler. As a note, there are German soldiers buried in cemeteries near Americans, English and other opposing forces across Europe. While segregated, they are treated with dignity. I’ve seen a few. None, to my recollection, had swastikas on their headstones.
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COL David Turk If the headstones were removed then the grave was desecrated. The German flag these soldiers fought under had a swastika on it.
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