Giant Swastika Carved on Frozen German Lake

German police are investigating the carving of a giant swastika measuring five metres on a frozen lake in the northern German city of Schwerin, that occurred on Monday.The unknown Vandals scraped the banned Nazi symbol with snow shovels or so it is believed, last Friday the 8th. They also carved other Nazi slogans and symbols as well on the lake.

Under German law any use or display of Nazi symbols or slogans is strictly forbidden.

Last Of The Ann Frank Hiders Dies

Miep Gies the last survivor of the people who hid and tried to save Ann Frank and her family has died. She and other employees of Anne Frank's father Otto supplied food to the family as they hid in a secret annex above the business premises in Amsterdam.

Ann’s diary of her time hiding has become a legendary symbol of the Nazi hate imitative seen through the eyes of a child. Miep found the diary in the annex after Ann and the family where arrested and kept it safe until later she managed to return it to Otto, Ann’s father.

Miep Gies died in a nursing home aged 100 just before Christmas.

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