history - remembrance - oblivion

There were political plans to transform the Tannenberg-Denkmal into a site where the memory of soldiers fallen in the Battle of Tannenberg would be worshipped. Consequently, a national monument was built whose role was to inflame a patriotic spirit in the German nation. It was erected between 1924 and 1927, after the designs of the Berlin architects Walter and Johannes Krüger.

The Tannenberg-Denkmal has not existed for many years.

This website is devoted to its memory. It is built from collected fragments of information, the detritus of knowledge about the past, and the relics of memories lost.

History, is devoted to its memory. It is built from collected fragments of information, the detritus of knowledge about the past, and the relics of memories lost.

Memory, in this case it is not a record of experienced recollections but an attempt at an orderly re-assembling of lost memory. It is memory arranged in the form of an archive.

Oblivion, is tantamount to the erasure of the memory of the monument. Devastation experienced years ago, pillage and the dispersion of its unwanted (alien) remains provokes a set of basic questions:

Should one speak about the Tannenberg-Denkmal now?
How should one speak about it?