The Siege of Marienburg was an unsuccessful two-month siege of the castle in Marienburg (Malbork), the capital of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights. The joint Polish and Lithuanian forces, under command of King Władysław II Jagiełło and Grand Duke Vytautas, besieged the castle between 26 July and 19 September 1410 in a bid of complete conquest of Prussia after the great victory in the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg). However, the castle withstood the siege and the Knights conceded only to minor territorial losses in the Peace of Thorn (1411). Marienburg defender Heinrich von Plauen is credited as the savior of the Knights from complete annihilation.
Heinrich von Plauen (the Elder) (ca. 1370–1429) was the 27th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from November 1410 to October 1413. He was a stern proponent of prolonging the war with Poland. Because all male members of his family were baptized as Heinrich (Henry), he is sometimes known as Heinrich von Plauen the Elder to differentiate from his relative, Heinrich von Plauen the Younger (died ca. 1441).
The pilots' memorial on the Wasserkuppe - the mountain of pilots - consists of basalt stones as a foundation and an eagle sculpture made of bronze, which was created by the sculptor and animal sculptor Professor August Gaul.
It was erected in 1923 in memory of the fallen pilots of the First World War (1914 - 1918), on the initiative of an association of former front-line pilots. According to estimates of the reporter of the Fuldaer Zeitung, 100,000 people attended the inauguration on August 30, 1923.
The inscription on the airmen's memorial reads:
"WE
DEAD AIRMEN REMAINED
SIEGER
BY US ALONE.
PEOPLE,
YOU FLY AGAIN
AND YOU WILL BE
WINNER
THROUGH YOU
ALONE."
The words must be understood from the spirit of those times after the lost First World War, which were strongly marked by deprivations of the population, reparation payments and inflation.
Kurt Tucholsky rightly criticized the monument and the cult of the glider pilots in the 1920s in the Weltbühne. The inscription was "beautiful, but wrong. The dead aviators are those who were shot down, i.e. defeated - which certainly does not disgrace them. But to construct a victory from a shooting down, which in the opposite case is celebrated as a glory, is surely not acceptable."
From the airmen's memorial, one has a magnificent view over the Rhön.
home sweet home 😍
It was erected in 1923 in memory of the fallen pilots of the First World War (1914 - 1918), on the initiative of an association of former front-line pilots. According to estimates of the reporter of the Fuldaer Zeitung, 100,000 people attended the inauguration on August 30, 1923.
The inscription on the airmen's memorial reads:
"WE
DEAD AIRMEN REMAINED
SIEGER
BY US ALONE.
PEOPLE,
YOU FLY AGAIN
AND YOU WILL BE
WINNER
THROUGH YOU
ALONE."
The words must be understood from the spirit of those times after the lost First World War, which were strongly marked by deprivations of the population, reparation payments and inflation.
Kurt Tucholsky rightly criticized the monument and the cult of the glider pilots in the 1920s in the Weltbühne. The inscription was "beautiful, but wrong. The dead aviators are those who were shot down, i.e. defeated - which certainly does not disgrace them. But to construct a victory from a shooting down, which in the opposite case is celebrated as a glory, is surely not acceptable."
From the airmen's memorial, one has a magnificent view over the Rhön.
home sweet home 😍
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Дети за отцов не отвечают. Дочери атамана
23 июня 1921 года, то есть 100 лет назад в г. Порт-Артуре родилась старшая дочь атамана Г.М.Семенова Елена Григорьевна Семенова. Умерла в Новороссийске в доме сестры Татьяны Григорьевны. Сестры Таня и Лиза отбывали срок в Озерлаге, а старшая сводная сестра в других лагерях, была подстрелена охранником и едва выжила. На всю жизнь получила психическое расстройство. Посмотрите небольшой фильм о дочерях атамана Семёнова под названием "Дети за отцов не отвечают. Дочери атамана.
Youtube.com. (2017). Дети за отцов не в ответе О дочерях атамана Семёнова. [online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULtd8YV3YAY&t=5s> [Accessed 1 August 2021].
23 июня 1921 года, то есть 100 лет назад в г. Порт-Артуре родилась старшая дочь атамана Г.М.Семенова Елена Григорьевна Семенова. Умерла в Новороссийске в доме сестры Татьяны Григорьевны. Сестры Таня и Лиза отбывали срок в Озерлаге, а старшая сводная сестра в других лагерях, была подстрелена охранником и едва выжила. На всю жизнь получила психическое расстройство. Посмотрите небольшой фильм о дочерях атамана Семёнова под названием "Дети за отцов не отвечают. Дочери атамана.
Youtube.com. (2017). Дети за отцов не в ответе О дочерях атамана Семёнова. [online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULtd8YV3YAY&t=5s> [Accessed 1 August 2021].