A Argentine businessman based in Punta del Este applied to buy the Nazi eagle from the ship Graf Spee, recovered from the ocean in 2006, in Uruguay, by brothers Felipe and Alfredo Etchegaray. The sale of the eagle, and of a rangefinder found on the same ship two years earlier, stemmed from a recent ruling by the Uruguayan justice that obliges the local state to pay the Etchegarays for the work carried out to bring these elements to the surface. “Once I have her in my possession, immediately, I will blow her into a thousand pieces (…) Every piece that...