German WW2 war dead memorials

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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by LineDoggie » 08 May 2020 23:47

georgi23 wrote:
08 May 2020 07:14



Yes. This is a crime. I eager to see the memorial of German fallen soldiers who took part in massacres in Ukraine. Baby yar .
I believe its next to the Memorial to the Brave Soviet NKVD who did the Katyn Massacre....
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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by Leibstandarte_fi » 09 May 2020 04:32

LineDoggie wrote:
08 May 2020 23:47
Yes. believe its next to the Memorial to the Brave Soviet NKVD who did the Katyn Massacre....
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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by ManfredV » 12 May 2020 10:57

Yes, Neue Wache is: "Zentrale Gedenkstätte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland für die Opfer von Krieg und Gewaltherrschaft"

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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by markjonas » 01 Jun 2020 11:42

hi,
German war memorials were sites of both political conflict and personal mourning. Monumental displays of revanchism caused much controversy, but they were not prevalent. A nation without a national war memorial, Weimar Germany, was also one of the few European societies without a symbolic grave of the Unknown Soldier.

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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by ManfredV » 01 Jun 2020 20:12

Weimar republic had a national monument for the unknown solider. Neue Wache in Berlin.Today it is national monument for all victims of war and tyranny.

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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by Leibstandarte_fi » 02 Jun 2020 23:57

Any possibilty to get Photoes?

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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by TheSearchers » 11 Aug 2020 07:48

Leibstandarte_fi wrote:
02 Jun 2020 23:57
Any possibilty to get Photoes?
Google brings up plenty of them and there are also documentaries on YT: https://youtu.be/X8RTFTuwopg
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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by wm » 11 Aug 2020 10:57

German War Cemetery in Nadolice Wielkie, Poland.
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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by Leibstandarte_fi » 11 Aug 2020 14:52

Beautiful!

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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by mw29633 » 27 Aug 2020 08:28

The 1919 peace treaty is a good point.
I saw the 1914/1919 version in some places for example in Germany and France.
For 1945 we must assume another logic, because the WW II peace treaty wasn't signed
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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by hellogetsafe » 25 Sep 2020 06:58

A recent study by German historian Rüdiger Overmans found that the German military casualties were 5.3 million, including 900,000 men conscripted from outside of Germany's 1937 borders

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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by ManfredV » 30 Sep 2020 18:59

It isn't a "recent study". It is from 1996.
Overmans is one of Germany´s leading historians in research of WWII losses, POW of all centuries but esp. WWII. He also made a study about casualties of Dresden air raid.
His study about german casualties of WWII (also his disertation) was published 1996 but got serveral updates and editions.

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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by hellogetsafe » 05 Oct 2020 13:43

Thanks for sharing this information.

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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by Ludwig Wittgenstein » 23 Oct 2020 23:38

I have seen regional war memorials commemorating ww1 as 1914-1919 in the U.K. They are often expanded to include the 1939-1945 war too.

Interestingly some of the early ones refer to it as "The World War".

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Re: German WW2 war dead memorials

Post by kulasec » 01 Feb 2021 18:10

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