Monument Placed By Nazis Sits Quietly in Tennessee Cemetery-- Part 1

From May 25, 2018, Courthouse News Service by Daniel Jackson.

This would seem to be an oddity in these days of rage against statues and monuments.  

There's little indication from looking at it that a pillar in the Chattanooga National Cemetery in Tennessee was erected by representatives of Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II.

It bears no swastika and though the inscription is in German, there is no mention of the Third Reich

Members of Nazi Germany's diplomatic mission to the United States quietly installed the pillar in 1935, to memorialize German prisoners of war who died in America during World War I.

Strange to have these prisoners buried in a national cemetery dedicated to American military.

How Did This Come To Be?  --GreGen