In Tiergarten there is a Russian Memorial that is a burial site of more than 2,000 fallen Soviet soldiers. It is located by the Brandenburg gate. Some of the marble used to build it came from the ruins of the Hitler‘s chancellery building. It is built on a place which Adolf Hitler meant to devote to Welthauptstadt Germania. Besides the main memorial there is an inscription on the columns that states names only of the dead Heroes of the Soviet Union buried there. The monument is built in the British sector of West Berlin after the Berlin wall was erected in 1961. The Tiergarten Russia Memorial has a huge bronze statue or a Russian soldier. The figure is flanked by two T-34 tanks, the vanguard of the 1945 Soviet invasion of Berlin. In the cold war there Russian Soldiers that would change guards every two hours this memorial was in West Berlin British Sector of Berlin. The monument in 1970 a neo-Nazi, Ekkehard Weil, shot and severely wounded one of the Soviet honor guards at the monument. To protected the Russian soldiers from further attacks the British soldiers set up a 50 meter perimeter around the memorial. In 2010, the monument was vandalized just before Victory in Europe Day celebrations with red graffiti that read thieves, murderers, rapists, sparking a protest from the Russian embassy in Berlin that accused German authorities of not taking sufficient measures to protect the monument. The German tabloid Newspaper Bild launched a Bundestag-petition to remove the Soviet tanks from the memorial site as a response to the Crimean crisis in 2014, calling them a martial war symbol
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 03:37:19 +0000
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