Kult Pamięci
history - remembrance - oblivion

history
 the Battle of Tannenberg
 the cult of Marshal Hindenburg
Paul von Hindenburg
the propaganda Deutsches Reich
 Hindenburg's funeral
 the history of the appearance of the  monument
 the Tannenberg-Denkmal monument
 a new national symbol
 the ideological nature of the  monument
 the history of the monument
 Stalag IB Hohenstein
remembrance
 places of remembrance
 traces of memory - trip one
 the cult of memory
 the project
 broken links between memory and  history
 Pierre Nora, Between Memory and  History Les lieux de Memoire  (a fragment)
 a mock-up of the monument
 the location
oblivion
 the monument dispersed
 the erasure of history
 the present condition - debris

 the archive
 bibliography
 links
 contact


A photograph of a Reich election automobile with imperial flags and Hindenburg's image as a "saviour". Photo from 1925.


A propaganda poster "Times are hard but victory is assured".


A propaganda poster about war credits from 1917, designed by Louis Oppenheim. "Those who subscribe to the war give me the finest birthday gift! Von Hindenburg".

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Hindenburg during the celebration of his 80th birthday at a sports stadium in Berlin in 1927.


A cover featuring Hindenburg and the title "A film chronicle", war issue no. 4, from 23th January 1915.


A photograph of Hindenburg's funeral and his wife and Prussian Dukes, taken at night in St. Elizabeth's church in Marburg in Hesse; August 1946.

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