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To: AmericanMade1776

Who has a picture of Hitler at that tower?


43 posted on 07/24/2008 11:13:08 AM PDT by autumnraine
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To: autumnraine
autumnraine wrote: Who has a picture of Hitler at that tower?

I am looking, but until then some history on the Victory Tower in Berlin

Conceived in 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian war, by the time the Victory Column, or Tiergarten, was inaugurated in 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870/1871), giving the statue a new purpose. These later victories in the so-called Unification Wars, inspired the addition of the 8.3 meter-high bronze sculpture of Victoria. As part of his megalomaniacal plans to redesign Berlin, Hitler had the column moved from another part of Berlin to where it stands today

49 posted on 07/24/2008 11:19:28 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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