Berlin, Germany
Day 5, part 1!
Siegessäule, ("Victory Column"); originally designed to commemorate Prussia's victory in the 1864 Danish/Prussian War, by the time it was inaugurated in 1873 it was turned into a memorial to Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War and Germany's unification. In 1939 the memorial was moved from it's place in front of the Reichstag to it's present location in the Tiergarten...
Berlin, Germany
Day 5, part 1!
Siegessäule, ("Victory Column"); originally designed to commemorate Prussia's victory in the 1864 Danish/Prussian War, by the time it was inaugurated in 1873 it was turned into a memorial to Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War and Germany's unification. In 1939 the memorial was moved from it's place in front of the Reichstag to it's present location in the Tiergarten...