Deutsches KriegsschiffUruguay schmilzt Reichsadler der „Graf Spee“ doch nicht ein https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/ausland/2023/uruguay-reichsadler-graf-spee/ #ZweiterWeltkrieg #Hakenkreuz #Heckadler #GrafSpee #Ausland #Uruguay

"Uruguay to melt down bronze Nazi eagle and recast it as dove"

"Uruguay will melt down a bronze Nazi eagle recovered from a sunken German warship and recast it into a dove of peace, President Luis Lacalle Pou announced on Friday.

The 350-kilogram (770-pound), two-meter (6.5-foot)-tall is emblazoned with a Nazi swastika.

The statue adorned Nazi Germany's Admiral Graf Spee battleship that was scuttled during World War II. It was uncovered at the bottom of the Rio de la Plata almost two decades ago.

"In times of division, violence, war in the world, we want to set a sign of peace," Lacalle Pou told reporters in Montevideo.

The new dove sculpture will be made by famed Uruguayan artist Pablo Atchugarry".

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https://www.dw.com/en/uruguay-to-melt-down-bronze-nazi-eagle-and-recast-it-as-dove/a-65946849

Sabías que Maximilian Spee fue el héroe juvenil y vecino de Hans Langsdorff, el que sería el comandante del crucero Admiral Graf Spee?

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https://www.juanjoseflores.com.ar/2020/03/graf-spee-el-guerrero-y-el-caballero.html

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Le 13 décembre 1939 à #RiodeLaPlata (Uruguay) le cuirassé allemand #GrafSpee pourchassé par la marine britannique se saborde pour ne pas être pris.

Ceci sera la première bataille navale de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale.

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