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Torchbearer Monument at Ordensburg Vogelsang

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Cologne District

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Schleiden

Torchbearer Monument at Ordensburg Vogelsang

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Location: Schleiden, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

November 19, 2017

The torchbearer at Thing-Platz (also called Sonnwendplatz) is a 5 m high, martial, muscular figure of the Aryan "master man" to be bred according to the Nazi ideology. The inscription on the relief plate read: “You are the nation's torchbearers. You carry the light of the spirit forward in the fight for Adolf Hitler ”.

Open-air theaters that were built between 1933 and 1936 for the things games as part of the “Thing Movement” under National Socialism and later also used for political rallies are called Thing places or Thing places.

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Hans-Peter

November 10, 2019

A memorial of German history: training center for the offspring of the Nazi cadre

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Rombea

May 2, 2022

Imposing and worth seeing 6 m high wall block with torch bearer and fire bowl at Sonnwendplatz. A well-made display board explains the story of the sculpture of an Aryan "mastermind". The inscription on the relief plate is no longer complete, it read: "You are the torchbearers of the nation. You carry the light of the spirit forward in the fight for Adolf Hitler".

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Location: Schleiden, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Torchbearer Monument at Ordensburg Vogelsang

1. Victor-Neels Bridge – View of Urftsee from Vogelsang loop from Wolfgarten

2. Victor-Neels Bridge – View of Urftsee from Vogelsang loop from Wolfgarten

3. Ordensburg Vogelsang – Victor-Neels Bridge loop from Einruhr

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