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NAZIs planted trees of contrasting colour in the shape of swastikas in various forests around Germany.

The forest swastika was a patch of carefully arranged larch trees covering a 3,600 m2 (4,300 sq yd) area of pine forest near Zernikow, Uckermark district, Brandenburg, in northeastern Germany. The reason behind the planting of the trees is unclear, but it has been suggested that it was laid out in 1937 by locals to prove their loyalty after a businessman in the area was denounced and sent to a concentration camp by the Nazi Party for listening to the BBC, or that a zealous forester convinced local Hitler Youth members to plant the trees in commemoration of Adolf Hitler's birthday.

For a few weeks every year in the autumn and in the spring, the colour of the larch leaves would change, contrasting with the deep green of the pine forest. The short duration of the effect combined with the fact that the image could only be discerned from the air and the relative scarcity of privately owned aeroplanes in the area meant that the swastika went largely unnoticed after the fall of the Nazi Party and during the subsequent Communist rule. However, in 1992, the reunified German government ordered aerial surveys of the state-owned land. The photographs were examined by forestry students, who immediately noticed the design.

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Posted: 2008-10-18 17:12:18

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Something I noticed whilst walking through Brighton. Those Crafty nazi's got the UK's table leg industry too!


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Posted: 2009-09-19 06:53:38 Reply
thats terrible
Posted: 2008-12-14 12:22:40 Reply
stupid, the nazis took a symbol that meant "to be good" and turned it into something horrible.. cool design tho..
Posted: 2009-07-04 00:39:25 Reply
serious? (nickalfaro91)
i think that it's a bad thing to do but gotta admit it wouls be pretty awsome to get some designs into forrests it would be cool to do a space invader or pc man XD
Posted: 2009-07-04 05:24:00 Reply
ew1090
Rank: #39
looks photoshopped to me
Posted: 2009-07-04 07:45:23 Reply
Yo IsayLOLTooMuch,

He's referring to the swastika. not the tree's. Swastika is the image of a cross that has it ends turned to the right...meaning movement or the action of getting things done. Nazi's used this image because its it meaning, now it has been disgraced.
Posted: 2009-07-04 11:15:09 Reply
saroan
Rank: #449
this is so cool the tree part i mean.they better keep
them! cause its ART
Posted: 2009-07-29 16:34:34 Reply
How many ways did the nazi's manage to get a swastica into everything that people see?
Posted: 2009-08-08 07:38:07 Reply
shadow83
Rank: #470
what they dont tell u is that those forest are protected by the government no deforesting so it will last more then our life time lol jk but that would be a twist....
Posted: 2009-09-19 00:25:29 Reply
interesting to see how years later hitler and the nazi party is still in everyday converstions
Posted: 2009-10-12 15:13:15 Reply
porostap
Rank: #207
as evil, cruel and a compleate dick hiltler was, that tree thing was actually a really clever idea
Posted: 2009-10-13 06:33:13 Reply
Zink
Rank: #37
lol, im sure those jews were like "Hitler, what a dick!"
Posted: 2009-10-13 07:33:07 Reply
ember
Rank: #58
i vote for my little pony trees!
Posted: 2009-08-08 08:02:55 Reply

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