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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tiago Rogero in Montevideo

Uruguay faces dilemma from the deep: what to do with a salvaged Nazi eagle?

The eagle from the World War II German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, being salvaged in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The eagle from the second world war German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, being salvaged in Montevideo, Uruguay. Photograph: Marcelo Hernández/AP

The 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.

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