Speeches extolling Abraham Lincoln on the one hand and German heroism on the other were linked here at a meeting of the Deutschen Ehren Legion (German Legion of Honor), descrbed by its opponents as another disguised Nazi organization.
It was probably the first time that any tribute to Lincoln was paid in a setting of German government. Nazi swastika and German navy flags, as well as the stars and stripes.
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