Restoring military graves in the Old Cemetery in Berchtesgaden
When we think of Berchtesgaden the first thought that comes is that it was Hitler's home during the Nazi period. However there is much more to it than that and has a long history. The old cemetery does have the graves of Hitler's mentor Dietrich Eckart and former Third Reich leader Hans Lammers as well as the graves of many of the victims not only of Nazi aggression and war mongering but also those who died because of German militarism in the First World War. Many of these graves were uncared for but thanks to one gentleman who took me around and showed me his work, many of the victims of those wars now are properly commemorated with photographs and their resting places have been cleaned up.
The German War Cemetery, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany.
A quick visit to the WWI/WWII war cemetery in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany.
Some unique features include the path up to the main burial area and wooden roof tiles used on the chapel and surrounding wall. This roof tile feature seems to be common to this area. The cemetery contains just over 900 graves as well as a chapel.
Berchtesgaden Cemetary
Walking through old town Berchtesgaden.
Military Cemetery at Berchtesgaden, Germany
Ramsau Bei Berchtesgaden, the old church ca. 1512
And the old cemetery
GERMANY: EXPLORING a WW2 CEMETERY of GERMAN SOLDIERS in KOBLENZ
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Koblenz is a German city situated on both banks of the Rhine where it is joined by the Moselle. Koblenz was established as a Roman military post around 8 B.C and it celebrated its 2000th anniversary in 1992.
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SS guard post in Berchtesgaden, Germany
At the bottom of the road which leads up to the Obersalzberg, at the intersection of the main road leading through Berchtesgaden we find this building which is today a kiosk but which was built as a guard post for the SS. Today the Nazi symbols are gone but we can still see the year of construction. It demonstrates quite clearly how the Nazis treated the Obersalzberg and the result was that the local population was forced to find somewhere else to live.
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Archival footage shot by an Austrian filmmaker in the summer of 1982.
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An old cemetery with up to 4,000 graves has been unearthed at a construction site of new housing project in Berlin's Friedrichshain district, as seen on footage captured on Friday.
As seen on the footage, the majority of the skeletons have already been removed from the site. Reportedly, the property developers and construction workers were not aware of the existence of the cemetery.
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Germany - Nazi Victims' Graves Desecrated
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Vandals overnight on Saturday (6/5) overturned 103 gravestones of
people victimized by the Nazis in Berlin. The graves are located
in a section of the Kiefholz cemetery in the eastern district of
Treptow.
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People entering cemetery
GVs of gravestones overturned
CU of overturned gravestones
Flowers laid on gravestones
Piles of dirt
People looking at knocked over gravestones
Elsa Stolberg, (husband buried nearby) SOT (in German): All of
the people buried here were fighting against the Nazis.
Statue of man tied up, near the graves
WS of knocked over graves
Entrance to cemetery
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Dietrich Eckart, one of the founders of the Nazi Party
Although largely unknown outside of Germany - or even for that matter maybe even Berchtesgaden - Dietrich Eckart is a 'philosopher' (and I use that word in the widest possible sense) who had more effect on the terrible events of the twentieth century than almost any other. It was he who was the mentor of Hitler.
He was born in 1868 in Neumarkt, about 32km southeast of Nuremberg, which was then in the Kingdom of Bavaria but soon to be the united Germany. His father, Christian Eckart who a royal notary and lawyer was quite well off. His mother Anna spent most of her time in the local Catholic church but she died when Eckart was ten years old. The young boy was a problem child, getting expelled from several schools. Iin 1895, his father died also, leaving him a considerable amount of money that Eckart soon spent.
Eckart initially studied law at Erlangen, later medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Like many students he spent his time drinking, fencing was also a popular pastime then. In 1891 he became a writer, and like others with a similar bent he was also a drug addict with a morphine problem. He moved to Berlin in 1899 and became the protégé of the artistic director of the Prussian Royal Theatre, Count Georg von Hülsen-Haeseler (1858–1922) who kept his finances topped up and his plays on the stage. One such play was the 1912 adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt which ran for more than 600 performances in Berlin alone. Eckart interpreted the play to have a nationalist German as the hero who is fighting against Jewish troll like characters. The success of the play made Eckart a lot of money and powerful connections amongst the rich. This was further assisted when he married a rich widow in 1913.
Eckart then started to write about the superiority of the Germanic race using the works of nineteenth century authors as his base.
Although nationalist his nationalism did not go as far as to fight in the armed forces although years of substance and alcohol abuse had taken their toll. In his mid forties when WW1 started, Eckart managed to avoid the draft.
Some time around 1918 or 1919 Eckart became the editor of a racist journal called Auf gut Deutsch (In clear language) alongside Alfred Rosenberg and Gottfried Feder. Although unwilling to fight for the Empire and Kaiser, he was strongly opposed to the Treaty of Versailles and Weimar Republic. He was a major proponent of the stab-in-the-back myth whereby Jews, Communists, Social Democrats and defeatists caused Germany to lose the war whilst the troops were unbeaten in the field.
In January 1919, Eckart, Feder, Anton Drexler and Karl Harrer founded the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German Workers' Party - DAP). He was the original publisher of the party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, and also wrote the lyrics of Deutschland erwache (Germany awake), which became an anthem of the Nazi Party. Eckart believed in the coming of a German Messiah who would redeem Germany after its defeat in World War I and wrote a poem to that end referring to ‘the Great One’, ‘the Nameless One’, ‘Whom all can sense but no one saw’. Later that year Hitler came to a meeting in order to spy on a party meeting and the two met. Eckart believed that he had found that Messiah. The two became close, like father and son, Eckart being the mentor of the future Fuhrer.
In February 1920 Eckart changed the party name to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party – NSDAP); - the Nazi Party.
In the early 1920s Eckart and Alfred Rosenberg introduced Hitler to wealthy patrons in an effort to raise funds for the then tiny party. In July 1921 Hitler became the leader of the party after resigning - the party committee realised that the only speaker it had and only chance of raising funds was Adolf Hitler. Hitler's threat to resign was withdrawn and Eckart propelled him into the leadership. on 26 July 1921.
On 9 November 1923, Eckart participated in the Beer Hall Putsch. He was arrested and held in Landsberg Prison along with Hitler and other party officials, but was released shortly thereafter due to illness. He died of a heart attack in Berchtesgaden on 26 December 1923.
During the Nazi period, streets and memorials in his honour were made throughout Germany some of which can be seen today although of course they have ben renamed. It is said that when Hitler in later years spoke of him, a tear came to his eye when he recalled his mentor.
One can see Eckart's grave in the old cemetery in Berchtesgaden, right in the centre of town where apparently a lady in Munich pays for its upkeep. The graveyard is also the resting place of hundreds of Nazi victims - soldiers who were killed in Hitler's war, one must imagine how sick the family of the victims must feel at the sight of one of those whose philosophy created the evil of Nazism and the war itself.