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    "Bollwerk des Deutschtums im Osten": Das Freikorpsehrenmal auf dem Annaberg/Oberschlesien by Böck, Korbinian

    Published 2017-07-01
    “…The building, completed in 1938, was located on the Annaberg in Upper Silesia, where German troops had defeated Polish insurgents during the third Silesian Uprising in 1921. The article analyzes the composition of this – literally – outstanding example of commemorative architecture and explores its myths and legends.…”
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    In a Time Loop: Politics and the Ideological Significance of Monuments to Those Who Perished on Saint Anne Mountain (1934–1955, Germany/Poland) by Agnieszka Tomaszewicz, Joanna Majczyk

    Published 2021-03-01
    “…The “sacred” character of the mountain was appropriated in the 1930s by the fascist Thingstätte under the form of an open-air theatre with a mausoleum, erected to commemorate fallen German soldiers in the Third Silesian Uprising. After the Second World War, the same place was “sacralized” by the Monument of the Insurgents’ Deed, which replaced the German object. …”
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