There is now a guestbook at the Sites of Memory page, so please stop by and say hello!

The Sites of Memory page continues to expand rapidly. I have tightened up the links and recommended readings sections and revamped the site for easier use. There are now separate collections for five different theme categories as well as the all-encompassing list of markers by location. The total is now 96 pages up with 752 photos of over 100 memorials from 10 countries.

Since February I have gone memorial hunting in Karlsruhe and the nearby cities of Rottenburg and Herrenberg. My newest work online includes:

• Several memorials and memorial complexes in Karlsruhe, including memorials to the Franco-Prussian War, the Baden troops killed supressing the Revolution of 1848, the air raid and military dead of the two world wars, and others. The air raid memorial to those killed in World War One is especially touching because it includes the graves of 70 children killed while visiting the circus in 1916.
• Several memorials in Rottenburg, including a stone memorializing the burning of a heretic in 1527, the martyrdom of the state president of Württemberg, who was killed by the Nazis, and the local military cemetery.
• The memorial to the Baltenregiment in Tallinn, Estonia. These are historical photos, from the 1920s, from the Herder Institute archive in Marburg. It is the first example of what I hope will be a growing collection of photo documents of memorials and monuments which no longer exist.

I am now being helped by other contributors. Several more of my students have let me use their material online, although only one of there projects is up so far. Nicola Zwingmann, a fellow historian in Tübingen, sent me photos she took in Turkey. Mark Keck, another university friend, has begun contributing old pictures of his travels at home in the States, Poland and the Ukraine. Douglas Gleeson, a World War Two enthusiast who ran accross my site on line, is contributing material faster than I can put it up from places in Ireland, Italy, Germany and Poland. He is planning a trip to Germany, Poland and Ukraine this summer and has promised to keep contributing.

Already online are:

• Several sites near Anzio with photos by Douglas Gleeson
• An Atatürk memorial in Istanbul by Nicola Zwingman
• Two incompletely-documented sites in Wicheta, Kansas and a memorial to Americans who died for Poland (shown here in the upper right) by Mark Keck.

Coming soon to Sites of Memory:

• I currently have about a dozen contributions from my current history students which will, given student permission, go online when the semester ends in a few more weeks.
• a new domain name for easier reference
• The whole site is being revamped with smaller photo .jpg sizes for quicker dowloading and viewing
• photos of memorials in Herrenberg and several small towns
• several memorials in Pforzheim, including the impressive air-raid memorial atop the local hill made up of rubble from the city
• photos of the no-longer-exsitent Baltische Landeswehr memorial in Riga which was put up in the 1920s and destroyed twice
• photos of the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, one of the most significant landmarks for the history of democracy and unity in Germany