Tuesday, March 19, 2019

War Memorial - Bad Wörishofen

THE war memorial in the south Bavarian spa town of Bad Wörishofen seems to have been built in the mid-1950s.
It consists of a soldier in greatcoat and stahlhelm (steel helmet - nicknamed "coal scuttle" by Allied troops) lying down with his rifle by his side.
German soldier in stahlhelm
Above this figure is the list of fallen, the vast majority of which are, as is to be expected, from WW2, but with a lot from WW1.
The list of fallen
Above the names from the world wars, two other names have been added - one of someone killed in 1870 and the other of someone killed in 1871.
Considering that the memorial seems to have been unveiled in 1955, it may be that the two victims of the Franco-Prussian War were added at the request of people who, in the 1950s, were old enough to have lost a loved one in the conflict of 1870-71.

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