Millard, WI - Farmer Plans Hitler Memorial

Millard, Wisconsin - A retired farmer who says he served in the German army in World War II is turning some of his property into a memorial to Adolf Hitler.
Ted Junker, 87, plans a grand opening June 25 and says his goal is to clear up what he says are inaccuracies about the war and Hitler's role in it. "I like the U.S.," he said. "I can't understand why people don't know the truth. This is for understanding, not hate."

Junker said the memorial is in a concrete structure in the side of a hill and has a German flag and other items for display. Junker said he volunteered to join the German Waffen SS in 1940 and served in Russia, where the Germans worked to free Russians from communism. He came to the United States in 1955.

Sugar Creek Town Chairman Loren Waite said Junker told local officials he was going to build a tractor shed, not a Hitler memorial, and he hasn't applied for the conditional-use permit he would need for the venture. "As long as it was just on his back 40, that was one thing, but now that he's gone public, we're afraid of what's going to happen here," Waite said.