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Neue Wache – Central Memorial for the Victims of War and Tyranny

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    August 1, 2023

    From 1969 onward, an eternal flame, commissioned by the GDR leadership, adorned the center of the room in the Neue Wache, intended to inspire reflection.

    At that time, an unknown soldier and an unknown concentration camp prisoner were also buried in the room of the Neue Wache, and the site was even surrounded with soil from battlefields and concentration camps, according to the inscription.

    After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Harald Haake erected an enlarged bronze sculpture of Käthe Kollwitz with her dead son in her arms in 1993. This sculpture of Käthe Kollwitz is said to have been created in 1939.

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      August 26, 2022

      New guard Berlin
      The Neue Wache is a listed building on the Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin. Built from 1816 to 1818 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as a guard house for the royal palace and as a memorial for the wars of liberation, it is considered the main work of Prussian neoclassical architecture. A Victorian pediment sculpture by Johann Gottfried Schadow and five general statues by Christian Daniel Rauch, which refer to the warrior statues on the Schlossbrücke, are also part of the ensemble. Since 1993, the Neue Wache has housed the central memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the victims of war and tyranny.
      Text/Source: Wikipedia
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Wache#:~:text=The%20Neue%20Wache%20%28English%3A%20New%20Guard%29%20is%20a,considered%20a%20major%20work%20of %20Prussian%20Neoclassical%20architecture.

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        January 30, 2020

        The Neue Wache, on the street Unter den Linden, has been the central memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1993 and commemorates the victims of war and tyranny.
        The rather small Neue Wache is right next to the Zeughaus, which now houses the German Historical Museum. It was built in the years 1816 to 1818 according to the designs of Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
        The Neue Wache served as the "main guard and royal guard" until 1918 and, despite being used actively, was understood as a memorial to the "Wars of Liberation". In 1931, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg determined that the building should become a memorial to those who died in the First World War. The redesign was carried out by the architect Heinrich Tessenow, who set up a black granite block with an oak leaf wreath made of silver and gold inside.
        After the guard was almost completely destroyed in World War II, the GDR leadership had the building reconstructed and converted into a memorial for the victims of fascism and militarism in 1960. Inside, an "Eternal Flame" burned over the urns of an unknown concentration camp inmate and an unknown soldier. The sculpture "Mother with Dead Son" by Käthe Kollwitz has been inside since 1993 and commemorates the victims of war and tyranny.
        Source: berlin.de

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