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When Germany was reunited there were plans made for a biergarten, restaurant or café on the site of the Ehrentempel but these were derailed by the growth of rare biotope vegetation on the site. As a result of this, the temples were spared complete destruction and the foundation bases of the monuments remain, intersecting on the corner of ...
As Germany was divided following World War II, West and East Germany ratified the convention separately, the former on 23 August 1976 [3] and the latter on 12 December 1988. With German reunification, East Germany was dissolved on 3 October 1990. [4] Germany has 54 sites on the list, with a further seven on the tentative list.
The Nazi leadership preferred to organise events at locations of its own choosing, with better transport facilities. The monument featured as a symbol in Nazi propaganda material, but as a place for assemblies it was mostly used only by the Hitlerjugend and local branches of the various Nazi organisations. In 1936, the monument had 191,000 ...
Führer city, status given to five German cities in 1937 for a planned gigantic urban transformation; Führer Headquarters, buildings used as headquarters by Adolf Hitler; Nordstern, a planned new German metropolis in occupied Norway; Pabst Plan, plan to reconstruct Warsaw as a Nazi model city. Germania, the projected renewal of Berlin.
Nazi Germany, [i] officially known as the German Reich [j] and later the Greater German Reich, [k] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
The monument is located on the Kreuzberg hill in the Victoria Park in the Tempelhofer Vorstadt, a region within Berlin's borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. The monument was conceived at a time of deteriorating relations between the reactionaries and the reformers of the civic movement within Prussia. The monument is of cast iron, a technique ...
The Holocaust Memorial in the Grand Park of Tirana in Albania. It was designed by Stephen Jacobs and unveiled in 2020. Holocaust memorial, with inscription written in three stone plaques in English, Hebrew, and Albanian: “Albanians, Christians, and Muslims endangered their lives to protect and save the Jews.”
The Memorial to the German Resistance is located in the buildings to the left of the photo. The museum consists of a series of displays chronicling the history of Nazi Germany and of all those individuals and groups who opposed the single party state of the era and its ideology, for whatever reason. All resisters are given equal respect.