Civil Police in Brazil say one of their helicopters made a startling
discovery -- a huge swastika in the bottom of a swimming pool.
One of their helicopters
was assisting in a kidnapping investigation this week when officers
spotted the symbol on a property in Pomerode, Brazil in the southern
state of Santa Catarina.
Local authorities say no charges would be filed, since the swastika is
on private land and they say that the homeowner, who was not identified,
is not promoting Naz
ism.
Police say the pool has had the swastika for 13 years.
Though the swastika is an
ancient and sacred symbol for some cultures, its recent history has
been associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party who adopted it in 1920.
The Santa Catarina region has a history of European immigration -- including Germans and Austrians -- and hosts a popular Oktoberfest in the city of Blumenau every year that "preserves the customs of their ancestors from Germany to form colonies in the South."
After World War Two, Nazi hunters tracked down Franz Stangl
in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was the commandant of the Sobibor and
Treblinka extermination camps in Poland. He was arrested by Brazilian
Police in in 1967 and died in a German prison in 1971.
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