Treasure hunters recovered the more than six-foot-tall, 770-pound, swastika-bearing bronze eagle from a German cruiser scuttled after the first naval battle of World War II. Now in storage, the country doesn’t want it but can’t seem to get rid of it.
The renowned Uruguayan sculptor Pablo Atchugarry agreed to do the work at no charge. Lacalle Pou called the effort a “signal from our country to our people, to the outside world, that we are a society of peace, we are a society of union.”“This eagle, with all its tragic symbolism, is a piece of human history,” tweeted Alain Mizrahi, founder and chief executive of the Montevideo-based market research firm Grupo Radar and a descendant of Holocaust survivors.
Jaime Yaffé, a political scientist and historian at the University of the Republic in Montevideo,said there is value in preserving the eagle as is as a testimony to the past. “That past that we are trying to avoid only lives in our memory through the accounts that we have of it,” he said. “That piece is one of them.”Lacalle Pou quickly relented. “In the past few hours, I think there is an overwhelming majority that doesn’t share the decision,” he said.
As World War II loomed, Nazi Germany deployed the Graf Spee to the South Atlantic to harass Allied shipping. The cruiser, named for a World War I admiral who was killed in the nearby Falkland Islands, sank at least nine vessels before it was engaged by three British warships off the coast of Uruguay on Dec. 13, 1939.
The cruiser sustained heavy damage in the Battle of the River Plate. Uruguay was neutral at the outset of World War II; Graf Spee captain Hans Langsdorff put in at Montevideo for repairs. But believing that British intelligence agents could gain access to the ship and its technology, he soon ordered it sunk in the Río de la Plata. There the eagle lay until February 2006, when it was recovered by financiers Alfredo and Felipe Etchegaray and diver Hector Bado.
In 2019, an Uruguayan court ordered that the government sell the eagle at auction, with some of the proceeds going to the Etchegaray brothers’ salvage operation. But the auction was halted amid objections by Jewish groups, the German government and others concerned it would end up in the hands of Nazi sympathizers. Uruguay, one of South America’s smallest nations, with a population of just 3.
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