Visitors to a US military cemetery in the southern Netherlands have voiced strong objections after two displays honouring Black troops, instrumental in liberating Europe from the Nazis, were removed.
The American Battle Monuments Commission, a US government agency, took down the panels from the visitors' centre at the American Cemetery in Margraten sometime in the spring. This site, a resting place for approximately 8,300 US soldiers, is nestled in rolling hills near the Belgian and German borders.
