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Article: FIR YOU ZE WAR IS OVER; Germans steal our trees for parliament.(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- March 2, 1999
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THEY grew up straight and tall from native seed in the fresh clean air of the Perthshire hills.
But now 90 Scots pine trees are having their Highland roots stripped from them.
The Germans have transported them over the North Sea and re-planted the pines in a nursery there.
After just 18 months in Teutonic soil, the trees will become officially German under EU rules - and will then take pride of place on the site of the new Reichstag building in ...