1933 Hindenburg at Tannenberg II

September 27, 1933. Hungarian Newsreel. Standing on a man-made rise in the ground, the monument, a structure of imposing proportions took the shape of a regular octagon 325 feet across. In the middle of each of the eight sides rose a 75 foot-high tower 30 by 30 feet at its base. Linking the individuals towers were 20 foot-high walls, solid on the outside but on the inside forming an arcade facing the monument's central plaza. The overall appearance of the monument was strongly suggestive of a Teutonic castle, an indication that the Germans viewed the 1914 victory as in some way a reprisal for the defeat suffered 500 years earlier in an encounter with Slav armies. In the middle of the plaza was located the tomb of 20 unknown German soldier who had died during the 1914 battle. Above the tomb rose a wooden cross 40 feet high sheathed in brass. The unavailing of the monument took place on the 18th of September 1927, Hindenburg's 80th birthday.

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