It was lying on the ground, covered in dust and rubble, when the British soldier first saw it. A massive bronze eagle, its wings spread wide, once perched above the entrance to Hitler’s New Reich…
The Imperial War Museum in London holds one of the most striking trophies brought back by Allied troops from World War II: a massive bronze eagle. It came from the New Reich Chancellery, the vast government complex built by Albert Speer in the late 1930s. By the end of the war, that complex lay as … Read more