A suspected German neo-Nazi accused of erecting a headstone in a French field to honor a Nazi tank division is charged with glorifying crimes against humanity, French prosecutors say.
The monument to the 17th Panzer Infantry Division, whose members are suspected of massacring 124 people in a village in central France in August 1944, was discovered in January in a field outside the northeastern village of Volmunster, on the border with Germany.
It read, “In honor of the fallen of the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division. Approach, Engage, and Overrun!” according to pictures in French media. Set on private ground, the headstone was nonetheless visible to passers-by.
Investigators working with the Office for Fighting Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, and War Crimes seized the plaque and tracked down the owner of the field, a 34-year-old German living across the border in the Saarland region.
— AFP
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