I 
have to admit this picture creeps me out. It’s the eagle crest of the nazi warship Montevideo Graf Spee being pullled out of the sea off the coast of Uruguay. From the MSNBC article:
Divers have been working on and off since 1998 to recover the ship piece by piece, part of a multimillion-dollar effort by Argentine and German investors to refloat remains of the Nazi fleet and open a museum.
While I admire the objective preservation of history, I just have to say seeing Nazi stuff in the light of day is a bit spooky.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
To correct the previous poster, this artifact is not from the Nazi warship “Montevideo”. It is from the stern of the Nazi German pocket battleship “Graf Spee” (pronouced “graf spay”) which was scuttled (destroyed by it’s own crew) in the nuetral harbor of “Montevideo” in 1939 after a battle with British ships outside the harbor. The Germans were outnumbered and decided to destroy the ship and it’s advanced technology rather than let it fall into British hands. The captain later committed suicide. The crew were interned there for the remainder of the war and many of them stayed in Uraguay after the war and became citizens.
As for the “spooky” site, it is no more eerie than seeing the relics of any other fallen empire rise from the sea during a salvage operation. It is just another piece of history.