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New Guard, 1945

Germany
Mitte, Berlin
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The Neue Wache, built between 1816 and 1818 under Prussian King Frederick William III, served as a guardhouse and war memorial. Initially commemorating those fallen in the Napoleonic Wars, it later became a memorial to World War I victims after a 1931 redesign. Following World War II, it was reconstructed as a memorial to victims of fascism and militarism. In 1969, the remains of an unknown concentration camp prisoner and an unknown soldier were interred there. While once guarded continuousl.. Read more »


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