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Civil Police in Brazil say one of their
helicopters made a startling discovery -- a huge
swastika in the bottom of a swimming pool.
One of their helicopters was assisting in a
kidnapping investigation this week when officers
spotted the symbol on a property in Pomerode,
Brazil in the southern state of Santa Catarina.
Local authorities say no charges would be filed,
since the swastika is on private land
and they say that the homeowner, who
was not identified, is not promoting
Nazism.
Police say the pool has had the
swastika for 13 years.
Though the swastika is an ancient and
sacred symbol for some cultures, its
recent history has been associated
with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party
who adopted it in 1920 .
The Santa Catarina region has a history
of European immigration -- including
Germans and Austrians -- and hosts a
popular Oktoberfest in the city of Blumenau every
year that "preserves the customs of their ancestors
from Germany to form colonies in the South."
After World War Two, Nazi hunters tracked down
Franz Stangl in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was the
commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka
extermination camps in Poland. He was arrested
by Brazilian Police in in 1967 and died in a
German prison in 1971.
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