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Uruguay faces dilemma from the deep: what to do with a salvaged Nazi eagle?
Sculpture was retrieved from German battleship sunk in 1939 Battle of the River Plate but its future is controversialThe enormous bronze sculpture of an eagle clutching a swastika in its talons spent nearly 70 years lying at the bottom of the River Plate, off the coast of Uruguay.After being salvaged in 2006, it briefly went on display in the Uruguayan capital – before the government reconsidered the wisdom of granting such prominence to a Nazi emblem, and the eagle was hidden away on a military base. Continue reading...
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