arvores em forma de suastica
Enviado: 12 Ago 2006, 01:52

Trees in swastika pattern felled
BERLIN: German authorities chopped down several russet-coloured larch trees that had been planted to form a giant Swastika in a forest of evergreen pines. The larches were planted in 1938 by a devoted Hitler follower and their message only becomes visible — from the air — when the leaves turn yellow in autumn. Spurred by a wave of public protest after an aerial photograph of the 60-by-60 metre swastika was published in local newspapers, state Forestry officials moved in with chain saws early on Monday to obliterate the Nazi symbol. But a dispute over land ownership on part of the property meant that only about half of the Swastika could be cut down. — Reuters