Obama Picks Hitler’s Favorite Monument for Berlin Speech!

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Captain Ed reports that Barack Obama’s alienated Germany’s leadership – and illustrated his own historical illiteracy – by choosing to relocate his highly-anticipated Berlin speech to the city’s Siegessäule Victory Column, which is considered a symbol of Imperial Germany’s militarism, and was a favorite memorial of Adolph Hitler:

After receiving a hailstorm of criticism for considering Brandenburg Gate for a public speech, as well as official German dissuasion, Barack Obama moved the venue to the Siegessäule monument. Obama will speak about “historic” US-German relations, but once again, Obama’s own grasp of history has been proven deficient. Not only does the site contain a monument to Prussian victories over other American allies in Europe, its placement was decided by Adolf Hitler — in order to impress crowds in his idealized version of Berlin called Germania:

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