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Will a town in Poland keep or cut The Hitler Tree?
No news either way has been heard.
Background:
Town authorities now want it cut down and burned to make way for a new roundabout. But some residents have become attached to the 40-foot (12-meter) oak and are lobbying to save it.
"The tree has not hurt anyone and is not guilty of anything," protest organizer Kazimierz Polak said, adding that his group was appealing to local and regional authorities to preserve the tree.
"It is growing healthy and tall. Let it grow."
But Mayor Maria Kurowska said it was a reminder of Jaslo's connection to Hitler, whose Nazi troops razed the town in late 1944 as the Soviet Army advanced.
Polak said he remembers the tiny tree arriving in April 1942 in a box wrapped in the Nazis' swastika flag. It was a gift from Hitler on his birthday and came from the Austrian city of Braunau am Inn, where the Nazi leader was born in 1889.
"With two friends, Polak watched German authorities plant the tree with great pomp - part of an effort to Germanize the town," he said.
The town will decide within weeks about the proposed roundabout.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1094784.html
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.
| The tree is murdered |
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| Tree is allowed to stay where it is |
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| Nothing reported; something else; no news |
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Initial likelihoods: The tree is murdered: 40%, Tree is allowed to stay where it is: 40%, Nothing reported; something else; no news: 20%
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keyeshoveden![[Power User]](http://www.hubdub.com/images/icon_superuser.gif "This user is a super user"){kind=icon}
: I would say nothing reported. Can this be settled? 
drzinternet
: nothing reported 
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: No news either way has been heard. 
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Get widget!Predictions (54)
stephmoreland
predicted Nothing reported; something else; no news (H$100 at 98%)
frogchop
craig814
predicted Tree is allowed to stay where it is (H$50 at 13%)
linda415
predicted Tree is allowed to stay where it is (H$100 at 11%)
dlking58Comments (14)
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ken
how bad Hitler was, etc. etc.. , so the tree is now an "anti-hitler tree".
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