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Originally Posted by Daradon
Gorgeous pic.
What's the story about Hitler liking it?
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" Adolf Hitler, who reportedly admired the memorial for its peaceful nature,[65] was photographed by the press while personally touring it and the preserved trenches on 2 June 1940 to demonstrate the memorial had not been desecrated.[66] He ordered Waffen-SS troops to guard the memorial from both German and Allied armies. While all Australian World War I memorial graves in France were damaged during the war, the Vimy memorial was preserved[65] although the undamaged state of the memorial was not conclusively confirmed until September 1944 when the Welsh Guards recaptured Vimy Ridge.[67]"