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According to Fastolf's biographer Stephen Cooper, given his family's background Fastolf must have received an appropriate education for the standards of the time. [16] In a court testimony given in France, 1435, [17] he claimed to have visited Jerusalem as a boy, between 1392 and 1393, which must have been in the company of Henry Bolingbroke, later Henry IV. [16]
War cemeteries and war dead of World War I and II inside of Germany are also documented in these files (895,561 in 2010). Among these are war dead transferred to Germany or persons who died within Germany but only those are registered whose remains were transferred to war cemetery areas within civil cemeteries, not those removed to individual ...
Südfriedhof is the German name for the South Cemetery in Cologne, Germany. With an area of over 61 hectares, it is the largest cemetery in Cologne. [1] Südfriedhof also has sections for 2,596 Commonwealth war graves from prisoners of war mainly from the First World War. [2] There are also over 1,900 Italian prisoners of war buried here.
Berlin – Charlottenburg, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Friedhof, Burial site of John Rabe and Franz Betz; Berlin – Charlottenburg, British War Cemetery, Heerstraße. Berlin – Lichtenberg, Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde. Burial site of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht. Berlin – Mitte, Invalidenfriedhof.
After the division of Berlin in the aftermath of the Second World War the newly formed West German Army lost access to the Neue Wache, the traditional central German military memorial. In 1969 a board of trustees for a future memorial was founded by members of the West German Army and in 1971 the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz was ...
Soviet military memorials and cemeteries in Germany (3 P) Pages in category "World War II memorials in Germany" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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 3 August 2014, French President Francois Hollande and German President Joachim Gauck together marked the centenary of Germany's declaration of war on France by laying the first stone of a memorial at Hartmannswillerkopf, for French and German soldiers killed in this area during the war. [2]