War Memorial Dresden

Heidefriedhof Cemetery in Dresden contains the general war memorial of Dresden. It is a round square surrounded by 14 columns.

Seven columns bear the following names of cities, which suffered heavy during the Second World War:
Coventry
Dresden
Leningrad
Lidice
Oradour
Rotterdam
Warschau

The other seven columns, on the other side of the square, bear names of concentration camps:
Auschwitz
Bergen-Belsen
Buchenwald
Dachau
Ravensbrück
Sachsenhausen
Theresienstadt

The memorial was built during the period of Soviet occupation and had a perpetual flame which was extinguished after reunification in 1990. It bears an inion in German which means ''How many died? Who knows the number? You can see the agony on your wounds of the nameless ones who burned here in the hellfire of the human hand.'' Nearby on a piece of tarmac are sculptures of five prone figures covered with a very thin material. There is no clue on site as to their provenance but they appear to be bodies reflecting the February ''45 bombing.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & David Rupert Sneath
• Photos: Fedor de Vries