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2 gravestones with swastikas removed from veterans cemetery in Texas


2 gravestones with swastikas removed from veterans cemetery in Texas
A flag waves in a sea of headstones at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Thursday, May 21, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no public services will be held and the tradition of placing flags at each headstone has been canceled. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
by: Harmeet Kaur and Amanda Jackson, CNN
Posted:
Dec 26, 2020 / 08:22 PM EST
(CNN) Two headstones inscribed with Nazi swastikas that mark the graves of German prisoners of war have been removed from a veteran’s cemetery in Texas.
The headstones at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio feature an iron cross with a swastika at its center, along with an inscription in German that reads: “He died far from his home for the Leader (Führer), people and fatherland.” The headstones mark the graves of Pvt. Georg Forst and Pvt. Alfred P. Kafka, two POWs who died in T ....

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