Tannenberg Memorial
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The Tannenberg Memorial was a large German memorial remembering the fallen soldiers of the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914.
It was built in 1927 by the Weimar Republic near Hohenstein (Ostpreußen) (now Olsztynek, Poland), reminding of Stonehenge in some aspects.
In 1935, Paul von Hindenburg, German commander in the victorious battle and late Reichspräsident, was buried there, and Hitler had it renamed "Reichsehrenmal Tannenberg".
In 1945, as Soviet forces advanced into East Prussia, Hitler ordered Hindenburg's coffin to be disinterred and moved to Marburg an der Lahn, and the memorial destroyed. Poland removed the remainings later.
[edit] Reference
- Jürgen Tietz: Das Tannenberg-Nationaldenkmal. Architektur, Geschichte, Kontext. Berlin: Verlag Bauwesen 1999.
[edit] External link
- (German)Tannenberg-Denkmal (German Historic Museum)
- (German)Postcard
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