So, most likely, the 200+ pound memorial was placed on public land by the American Nazi Party.
The National Park Service couldn't do anything about removing the marker until they found out if anyone was buried under it. They went over World War II records for details on where the bodies had been buried, but came up with no definitive answers were forthcoming. Old maps showed conflicting spots for the burials and one even showed it under a building.
Rosenstock believes that whoever buried the bodies didn't want them found.
But, no one was buried under where the marker was found because in the 1940s a creek had run through the spot.
In 2010, under direction of the museum curator, a fork lift exhumed the granite block and lowered it into a truck. The stone, tagged OXCO-475, now spends its days under a protective blanket on a shelf in a storage facility in suburban Maryland -- its exact location a secret.
Sounds a Bit Like At the End of the Indiana Jones Movie About the Lost Ark. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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