Dead Dog in German Sailors’ Grave!
LATEST NAZI LIE Received Thursday, 11.30 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 21. A message from Berlin reports that the Official Agency stated: 4 ‘We have just learned of unexampled occurrences at the burial of the Graf Spee’s dead. A British seaman spat on the coffins during the procession, howled during the funeral oration and threw a dead dog into the grave.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 302, 22 December 1939, Page 7
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