‘Uh, why?’ US Army turns heads celebrating spruced-up memorial to Hitler’s tank regiment

Summary

The U.S. Army raised eyebrows Tuesday after it touted the restoration of a memorial to a Nazi-era German tank regiment, without once mentioning World War II. In a report published Monday, U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart — the Army command that runs U.S. military bases in and around Stuttgart, Germany — praised a local Scouting America project that restored the 8th Panzer Regiment Memorial on Panzer Kaserne — a U.S. military installation — in Böblingen, Germany. The report’s author, U.S. Army Public Affairs Specialist Balmina Sehra , called the weathered monument “a piece of local history” and…

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