Friday, October 14, 2016

Neue Wache




The building once served as the guardhouse for the royal palace.  It has served as a site of several memorials and currently is entitled The Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Dictatorship.  The sculpture, Mother with her Dead Son by Kathe Kollwitz is directly under the oculus and is thus exposed to the rain and snow of Berlin symbolizing the suffering of the citizens of Berlin during World War Two.

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