Tannenberg was the site of a major victory for Germany against Russia in 1914. Until I read the site below I had no idea that a massive monument was built there in the 1920s: Reichsehrenmal Tannenberg President Hindenburg was later buried there, and it became the focus of many German soldier visits after 1941 as this thread shows: Axis History Forum • View topic - Is This the Tannenberg Memorial? More details of the memorial here: Tannenberg Memorial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Source: http://www.ordensland.de/Tannenberg/Tannenberg_Reichsehrenmal2.jpg
It was damaged in 1945, the graves of Hindenburg and his wife were removed, and later the site was destroyed by Polish engineers. It is now part of Poland; GE link below. From the photos online only a few fragments of it remain.
I mentioned it post #14 on this thread ages ago. :p http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/ww2-battlefields-today/21803-battle-marks-ww1-memorials.html
Ok, missed that - found some photos of it today: Tannenberg Denkmal 2006 - a set on Flickr and another site here with good images on it: Tannenberg-Nationaldenkmal
Watch this from 1:21 onwards. Footage of funeral in Andy's pics. British Pathe - THE HITLER BOMB PLOT UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT ON FUHRER'S LIFE Tannenburg. Various shots of the funeral of Colonel General Korten, Chief of Staff of the Luftwaffe, who was killed in the bomb blast. Soldiers salute and stand to attention around the coffin. Field Marshal Hermann Goering shakes hands with the family. Various shots as he watches wreath being laid and salutes with his baton along with Keitel and Reader. The coffin is carried away.
All pictures from the following link: Search results for "bundesarchiv tannenberg" - Wikimedia Commons And the funeral is quoted as being General-Oberst Günter Korten's in 1944. Cheers Andy