Uruguay faces a delicate problem that evokes the times of the Second World War: how to sell a Nazi bronze eagle that belonged to a Nazi battleship? The question is now being debated after the Uruguayan justice system ordered the State to dispose of that piece, which has a swastika under the bird’s claws, to pay those who extracted it from the bottom of the Río de la Plata. The emblem belonged to the Admiral Graf Spee, a sophisticated Third Reich warship sunk in Montevideo Bay after a battle with British ships in 1939. For the Uruguayan government, the issue...
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