Ulrich Dinges' photos with the keyword: memorial

Somebody cuts the sandstone plates free from ivy, so that visitors can read the names of the fallen. All around the cross you see in the picture right down,is big; maybe are there 20 records. Each full with names and data of dead burgher. Villages like Amelinghausen, Sottorf, Eitzen or Rehlingen have own dead person's lists in a well-ordered manner after death date. While in hamlets the fallen are honoured with name it goes up in bigger German cities mostly anonymously. There hardly ever a monument in Germany cover names of the persons them your life have lost. I have given up asking unknown Persons more: The wars are over long and so a lot is forgotten.

am 3. Juni 1998 um 10 Uhr 58 zerschellte an dieser Stelle der ICE 884 "Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen". 101 Menschen verloren Ihr Leben: ganze Familien wurden zerstört und mehr als 100 Reisende schwer verletzt, viele tragen lebenslang an den Folgen. mehr dazu in Wikipedia unter : de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE-Ungl%C3%BCck_von_Eschede In 3. june 1998 smashed at this place the express train No 884 "Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen". 101 persons lost their lives: comlete families were destroyed and more than 100 travelers hard enjured,