Six Nazi spies were executed in D.C. White supremacists gave them a memorial on federal land.

Very interesting short read.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/23/six-nazi-spies-were-executed-in-d-c-white-supremacists-gave-them-a-memorial-on-federal-land/?utm_term=.98ebab18dd81

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A team of power company workers was trudging through a seldom-visited thicket in Southwest Washington when they spotted something odd in a ditch.


At the start of World War II, Rosenstock discovered when he began his research, Adolf Hitler had been determined to show the world just how susceptible America was to a Nazi attack, so he ordered his military to devise a plan.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

The special seven-man military commission opens the third day of its proceedings in the 1942 trial of eight Nazi saboteurs in the fifth floor courtroom of the Department of Justice building. (Library of Congress)

Three days later, they were secretly buried amid a seldom-visited thicket of Southwest Washington known as Blue Plains.

Rosenstock once found deer bones arranged atop the memorial. Others had found candles around it and noticed that it was regularly cleaned.