A NAZI CEMETERY.
LAUREL GROVE FOR HEROES. SEEPED WITH HITLER SPIRIT. MUNICH. The "first genuinely Nazi cemetery" has been conceived by Julius Streicher, leader of the anti-Jewish wing of the Nazi party. Work has begun on it at Nuremberg. . , ~ , Described as being "seeped through and through with, the Hitler spirit," the burial ground will contain beautiful o-raves for 200 of the National Socialist "foremost fighters," surrounded . by a laurel grove. ... I A quarter of the space ill lot tofl to tlu j cemetery will be devoted to the creation of an enormous parade ground in order to facilitate the great parades which take place on the occasion of otate funerals. . Before eacli body is laid, to rest it wiJ lie in state in a huge sarcophagus, which will serve as a bier of honour. Every tombstone and grave will be exactly similar in size and design, m order "to symbolise further the principle of brotherhood of fighters and conqUOn°eS part of the cemetery will be reserved for the grave of a Reichswehr private. He was Herr Schuhmacher, shot dead while on patrol work near the Austrian frontier in 1934.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 207, 2 September 1936, Page 15
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189A NAZI CEMETERY. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 207, 2 September 1936, Page 15
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