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 photo: david lindley in 1931 the neue wache - a former royal guardhouse - was turned into a monument to the dead of world war one. following it's rebuilding in the 1960's it became a memorial to the victims of fascism; in 1993 it was re-dedicated again, this time to the victims of all wars and dictatorships. the figure under the opening in the roof is called mother with her dead son, by a berlin artist who did lose her son in the first war. berlin has a number of memorials, as do many western cities, to the dead of the war, but i do wonder just how much the average berliner appreciates them: all of them that we saw seemed to be memorials to the victims of the germans, imposed in many cases by the victorious powers after the war. a collective rubbing the nose in it to germany? we saw no memorial to the german's own dead, whilst the memorial to the russian dead, perversly, was peopled by drunk russian teenagers staggering around and giving the fascist salute to the mute stones. | |
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