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The Tannenberg Memorial (German: Tannenberg-Nationaldenkmal, from 1935: Reichsehrenmal-Tannenberg) [1] was a monument to the German soldiers of the Battle of Tannenberg and the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes during World War I, as well as the medieval Battle of Tannenberg of 1410.
On the eve of World War I there were no traditions of nationally commemorating mass casualties in war. France and Germany had been relatively recently involved in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 1871. Germany had built a number of national war memorials commemorating their victory, usually focusing on celebrating their military leaders. [1]
Finch Hatton War Memorial; First World War Honour Board, Lands Administration Building; First World War Honour Board, National Australia Bank (308 Queen Street) Forest Hill War Memorial; Gair Park; Gayndah War Memorial; Goombungee War Memorial; Goomeri Hall of Memory; Goomeri War Memorial Clock; Goondiwindi War Memorial; Greenmount War Memorial
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Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which incorporates 139 cemeteries and memorials on the Western Front of the First World War. On 20 September 2023, UNESCO designated the locations as a World Heritage site. [1] [2]
World War II memorials in Germany (2 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in Germany" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total.
The stones form a room of 7.30×3.50 meters. 12 stairs – 5 on each long side and 1 on each short side – each one with 7 steps, lead down to the larger-than-life size monument of the fallen soldier. The memorial was designed by sculptor Karl Knappe and the architects Thomas Wechs and Eberhard Finsterwalder.
Front page of The New York Times on 11 November 1918. The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was signed near the French town of Compiègne, between the Allied Powers and Germany—represented by Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch and civilian politician Matthias Erzberger respectively—with capitulations having already been made separately by Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary.