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El País in English

Germany agrees to remove Nazi symbols from Madrid cemetery

Capital city’s Popular Party rulers had argued there was no need to disturb Condor Legion dead

The municipal government of the then Madrid mayor, and now justice minister in the Popular Party (PP) government, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, once made a vehement defense of several symbols of the Franco and Hitler regimes that were still on display in Madrid's Almudena cemetery, arguing that "the dead should be left in peace." [...]

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