A giant swastika of trees planted in a forest of pines north of Berlin by a devoted follower of Adolf Hitler in 1937 will be chopped down, a German government official said on Wednesday.
A spokesman for the government's property administration office, the BWG, which owns the land near the town of Zernikow, 60 miles north of Berlin, said the russet swastika of larches that stands out every autumn amid the green pines would be removed.
swastika：納粹黨所用的十字記號；*的忠實信徒在1937年用松樹制作了一個巨大的十字標記。
devoted：忠誠的，忠實的。
russet：黃褐色的, 赤褐色的。
larch：落葉松；這個大十字是黃色的落葉松植成的，在周圍綠色的松樹包圍中顯得十分顯眼。
“As owner of the land, we are now pressing the Brandenburg state forest authorities to take more extensive measures to remove this Nazi relic,” BWG spokesman Reinhardt Bauerschmidt told Reuters. “The trees will have to be removed.”
A Reuters aerial photograph and story on the nearly forgotten forest caused a wave of protests over the 200-by 200-foot symbol, which is only visible from the air.
Several German newspapers that printed the photograph called on the government to cut the forest down.
extensive：廣大的，多的；這位發(fā)言人要求州政府采取更多的手段摧毀納粹遺跡。
aerial photograph：空中攝影；路透社的新聞飛機拍攝出這一幾乎已經(jīng)被遺忘的納粹標記，引起了人們的極大關注。
A spokesman for the government's property administration office, the BWG, which owns the land near the town of Zernikow, 60 miles north of Berlin, said the russet swastika of larches that stands out every autumn amid the green pines would be removed.
swastika：納粹黨所用的十字記號；*的忠實信徒在1937年用松樹制作了一個巨大的十字標記。
devoted：忠誠的，忠實的。
russet：黃褐色的, 赤褐色的。
larch：落葉松；這個大十字是黃色的落葉松植成的，在周圍綠色的松樹包圍中顯得十分顯眼。
“As owner of the land, we are now pressing the Brandenburg state forest authorities to take more extensive measures to remove this Nazi relic,” BWG spokesman Reinhardt Bauerschmidt told Reuters. “The trees will have to be removed.”
A Reuters aerial photograph and story on the nearly forgotten forest caused a wave of protests over the 200-by 200-foot symbol, which is only visible from the air.
Several German newspapers that printed the photograph called on the government to cut the forest down.
extensive：廣大的，多的；這位發(fā)言人要求州政府采取更多的手段摧毀納粹遺跡。
aerial photograph：空中攝影；路透社的新聞飛機拍攝出這一幾乎已經(jīng)被遺忘的納粹標記，引起了人們的極大關注。