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In this Feb. 10, 2006 file photo, workers salvage the eagle from the World War II German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Video. Uruguay to melt bronze Nazi eagle statue to turn it into a peace dove

Updated: 20/06/2023 - 8:00 GMT+2

Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove of peace, says the South American country's president Luis Lacalle Pou.

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