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French at Essen (LOC)

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French at Krupp statue, Essen (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    The picture shows the statue of Alfred Krupp outside the Marktkirche de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred-Krupp-Denkmal_an_der_Marktki... Using Google Translate: "Just three weeks after Alfred Krupp's death, on August 5, 1887, the Essen city council decided to erect a memorial to the deceased. It was created by the prominent sculptor Fritz Schaper on behalf of the city of Essen and was ceremoniously unveiled on July 14, 1889, the second anniversary of Alfred Krupp's death." "Until the end of World War II, the memorial remained virtually undamaged in its place, although around 90 percent of the inner city was destroyed by bombs in the aerial warfare. But after the time of National Socialism, Krupp's reputation declined because the company was now viewed critically as the “armory of the German Reich” under Kaiser Wilhelm II and Adolf Hitler. After the surrender, the statue was initially used by American press photographers as a backdrop, but strangers soon pushed it into one of the bomb craters surrounding it. It is unclear who recovered the bronze figure and the stone base, brought it to the factory site and stored it there. It is known that the memorial was re-erected in a residential area in 1952, one year after Alfred's imprisoned great-grandson, Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, was released. The tensions between the city and the Krupp company gradually eased during the economic miracle, so that in the spring of 1961, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Krupp company, the memorial was again displayed at the Marktkirche. However, it was not exactly at the previous location in the axis of Kettwiger Strasse, but to the west of the church, slightly covered by a tree." "After 61 years, in 2006, the Krupp memorial was moved to its original location." For a postcard showing the location as it would have been in 1923, see commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marktkirche_Essen_um_1912... 360° view from 2016 showing location: goo.gl/maps/amkfyRQkkWU49fmH6

Gen. De Vri at Essen (LOC)

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