The German Ruhr area is now at sites-of-memory.de
Over twenty new sites of memory have been added to sites-of-memory.de from the Ruhr industrial area of Germany. I did not have the time to search the down town areas. I focused entirely on cemeteries in Dortmund, Bochum and Essen. Memorials from Mühlheim will follow soon.
I was surprised to not find monumental memorial complexes for the bombing in Dortmund or Essen. They have large cemetery sections for their war dead, and they are mostly civilians buried there, but no large memorial complexes focused on the bombing like in Darmstadt or Pforzheim or even a special section for the bombing victims like in Stuttgart or Karlsruhe.
The new memorials also include some new additions to the section on civilian accidents involving mines and a factory and several new gravesites for concentration camp victims, Soviet POWs, and other victims of the Nazis. There is also a well-hidden memorial to policemen and citizens who fell combatting the revolutionary disturbances in Essen in 1920.
Travel to all these sites was backed by a research grant from American Public University.
I was surprised to not find monumental memorial complexes for the bombing in Dortmund or Essen. They have large cemetery sections for their war dead, and they are mostly civilians buried there, but no large memorial complexes focused on the bombing like in Darmstadt or Pforzheim or even a special section for the bombing victims like in Stuttgart or Karlsruhe.
The new memorials also include some new additions to the section on civilian accidents involving mines and a factory and several new gravesites for concentration camp victims, Soviet POWs, and other victims of the Nazis. There is also a well-hidden memorial to policemen and citizens who fell combatting the revolutionary disturbances in Essen in 1920.
Travel to all these sites was backed by a research grant from American Public University.
mhatlie - Sat Aug 25, 00:29 Topic: Webpage Updates
