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Thread ID: 17206 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-03-09
2005-03-09 09:26 | User Profile
[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20050308/od_nm/germany_swastika_dc[/url]
BERLIN (Reuters) - Passengers on planes descending into Berlin's Tegel airport were greeted by the sight of a huge swastika scraped out of snow on a frozen lake a few kilometers from the runway, police said Tuesday.
The Nazi symbol, which is banned in Germany, was visible from planes arriving from all over Europe for most of Monday morning before water police, having tested the ice thickness, could venture out to erase it.
Alerted after a pilot told the airport control tower, police in a squad car sent to the lake failed to see anything from the shore. A police helicopter later spotted the 8 by 5 meter (26 by 16 foot) swastika and sent the water police team.
The suspected neo-Nazi stunt recalls an affair five years ago when a 60-by-60 meter swastika, visible only from the air, was discovered in a forest 100 km north of Berlin.
A devoted Hitler follower had planted russet-colored larch trees in 1938 which formed a swastika for a few weeks each autumn and spring as the leaves changed color.
2005-03-09 11:32 | User Profile
[QUOTE]A devoted Hitler follower had planted russet-colored larch trees in 1938 which formed a swastika for a few weeks each autumn and spring as the leaves changed color.[/QUOTE]
David Irving had a photo of this on his website. I don't recall if they simply removed the trees or burned the forest down.
2005-03-09 17:46 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Alerted after a pilot told the airport control tower, police in a squad car sent to the lake failed to see anything from the shore. A police helicopter later spotted the 8 by 5 meter (26 by 16 foot) swastika and sent the water police team. [/QUOTE]
Talk about a waste of resources.
2005-03-09 17:55 | User Profile
Symbols change meanings with time. Originally the ancient swastika was a kind of all purpose good luck sign found in the patterns of countless everyday and sacred objects. Then it became the famous symbol of Nazi Germany. Now it has two meanings, one as a Jewish media symbol for absolute evil and conversely as a symbol of resistance to Jewish inspired one world dictatorship.