From the July 2, 2017, Chicago Tribune "Nazi memorial a long forgotten mystery" by John Woodrow Cox.
This is one really interesting story.
Power company workers were walking through a rarely visited thicket in Southwest Washington state when they spotted something, a rectangular slab of granite. Upon closer inspection they saw it was a memorial to honor Nazi spies and it was on U.S. government property.
It said: "In memory of agents of the German Abwehr executed August 8, 1942.".
Below that were the names of the six executed:
Herbert Hans Haupt
Heinrich Harm Heinck
Edward John Kerling
Hermann Otto Neubauer
Richard Quirin
Wener Thiel
And, at the bottom "Donated By the N.S.W.P.P."
The whole endeavor had the code name Operation Pastorius.
And, It Thickens. --GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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