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German War Memorials Like many small towns in the U.S. (especially in the South), many towns and even small villages in Germany have war memorials to their sons who have fallen in battle. These tend to be more prevalent in Bavaria, and they start with memorials to the 1866 war of Prussia vs. Austria (when the Bavarians fought unsuccessfully for Austria).

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Of particular note was a flag flying on the state capitol grounds. It is part of a war memorial to the Confederate dead (the Confederates lost 4 million dead in today's numbers) and it got me thinking about the power of flags, memorials, monuments, and statues.

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In 1949, the newfound Federal Republic of Germany banned the swastika from public life. And since 1945, its government has worked to systematically get rid of Nazi-era memorials and architecture. Nazi officials were buried in unmarked graves. Swastikas were ground off buildings. Monuments and statues from the Third Reich were torn down.

Read the Allied order to destroy Nazi monuments in Germany.

Every existing monument, poster, statue, edifice, street, or highway name marker, emblem, tablet or insignia, of a type the planning, designing, erection, installation, posting or other display of what is prohibited by Paragraph I of this Directive must be completely destroyed and liquidated by 1 January 1947; also all military museums and exhibitions must be closed and liquidated by 1 January 1947 throughout the entire German territory.

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What prompted the small village of Goirle, Netherlands to make a small statue honoring Wehrmacht soldier Private Karl-Heinz Rosch? The steel helmet

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More background info: The style known as socialist realism is geared towards two things: political propaganda and glamorizing war heroism. The former mostly comes in the form of posters, the latter really comes into its own with monuments, esp. statues.

List of statues – Wikipedia

This is a list of the most famous statues worldwide, past and present that already have articles about them in Wikipedia or are referred to or pictured in other articles.