Uruguay’s president thought he’d found the solution at last for the Nazi eagle.
The question of just what to do with the artifact — a more than six-foot-tall, 770-pound bronze eagle grasping a large swastika medallion in its talons — has vexed the South American nation since treasure hunters fished it out of the Río de la Plata in 2006. It once sat atop the Admiral Graf Spee, a German heavy cruiser that was scuttled in Montevideo Bay in 1939 after sustaining damage in the first naval battle of World War II. Now it’s in storage, the property of a country that doesn’t want it but can’t seem to get rid of it.
