Learn German for Beginners A1/A2 #40: die Neue Wache
A dejected mother sits crying in the middle of a dark room an holds the corpse of her son in her arms.
That is the scene in "die Neue Wache" in Berlin.
The building was inaugurated in 1818.
At that time it was used as a guard house for the guard of the king.
Until 1931 die Neue Wache was a royal guard house.
After that it was converted to a memorial for the fallen soldiers of the first world war.
In the second world war the building was heavily damaged.
It had to be repaired.
From 1955 to 1993 the inside of the building was a memorial for the victims of fascism and militarism
and until German reunification there stood two soldiers of the NPA as an honor guard in front of the Neue Wache.
Since 1993 the Neue Wache serves as a memorial for the victims of war and tyranny.
Six columns stand in front of the entrance upon which there is a triangular roof.
In the middle of the triangle you see a victory god on a battlefield,
but what I find more important are the people in the corners left and right.
A mother is squatting on the left side with her child.
She is trying to protect the child from the battle.
A corpse is lying in the arms of two other men on the right side.
They represent the victims of war and tyranny.
Two signs hang on the outside wall next to the middle entrance.
The first explains the history of the building
and the second is a memorial plaque
that explains for what the memorial stands today.
There is only one large room inside.
A mother sits in the middle of the room with the corpse of her son in her arms.
That is an enlarged copy of a sculpture by Käthe Kollwitz.
The roof has a round hole in the middle directly above the sculpture.
If the sun is shining, it almost never shines on the sculpture, but when it rains, it only rains on the sculpture.
For me this memorial is especially impressive, because the symbolism is very powerful.
The solitude of the mother in the middle of a large room,
the shadow that always menaces the mother,
and the rain that comes through the hole in the roof and only falls on the mother
show quite clearly how war
and tyranny has impacted this mother and are symbolic for the grief and suffering of the victims.
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