The Trees of Hate

By: Dan Lewis

Narrated by: Mark Schectman

From the end of World War II until the fall of the Soviet Union nearly fifty years later, the happenings of those nations behind the Iron Curtain were hidden in the shroud of communism. Many of the goings-on came to light in subsequent years, with most being stories of abuses under communist dictators. But some of the revelations unveiled in the 1990s were secrets about the Nazis. For example, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, someone discovered a swastika made of trees, a construct of Nazi Germany some 55 years earlier. According to an ABC News report circa 1992, an intern at a Brandenburg, Germany landscaping firm was looking through aerial photos of a forest about 60 miles north of Berlin, searching for irrigation lines, when he noticed a collection of larches – trees with leaves that, like most other trees, change colors as the seasons change. But these larches were in a forest full of pine trees, which are evergreen.

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