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That was hard to find for a while, verbatim =]
The swastika was made of Larch trees planted near Zernikow. It was forgotten until 1992 when Germany reunified and planes started flying over the region again.
It created a lot of protest when it was found, and since displays of Nazi insignia are banned in Germany, they tried to chop down a bunch of the trees in '95, but by 2000 the trees had grown to fill in the spaces, so the government chopped down another 25 of the 57 trees.
Apparently, this wasn't the only swastika planted in the forests during that time, but it was the only one that hadn't been found and eradicated decades ago.
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