Watchdog urges VA to clean the headstones with the swastika with national military cemetery
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2020 6:37 pm
Along with the names of soldiers, dates of birth and death, the tombstones are engraved with a swastika in the center of the Iron cross — a reward for valor — and the phrase: "He died far from home for the Fuhrer, the people and the Fatherland."Fuhrer" - that's what Hitler called himself.
Mikey Weinstein, Chairman of the military religious freedom Foundation (MRFF), was warned about the tombstones by a former senior officer in the active-duty US army. He shared photos of tombstones with the salon.
Weinstein, who is Jewish, wrote to veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, demanding that the Department "immediately replace the headstones of all German service members buried in VA national cemeteries" and ensure that no Nazi-era symbols remain in American military cemeteries.
Mikey Weinstein, Chairman of the military religious freedom Foundation (MRFF), was warned about the tombstones by a former senior officer in the active-duty US army. He shared photos of tombstones with the salon.
Weinstein, who is Jewish, wrote to veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, demanding that the Department "immediately replace the headstones of all German service members buried in VA national cemeteries" and ensure that no Nazi-era symbols remain in American military cemeteries.