The Stalingrad Madonna is an image of the Virgin Mary drawn by a German soldier, Kurt Reuber, in 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. The original is displayed in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin, while copies now hang in the cathedrals of Berlin, Coventry, and Kazan Cathedral, Volgograd, as a sign of the reconciliation between Germany and its enemies the United Kingdom and Russia during the Second World War.
Stalingrad Madonna, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, Berlin. The blue cast is from the colour of the building's windows
Kurt Reuber, self-portrait made in Stalingrad
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, mostly just known as the Memorial Church is a Protestant church affiliated with the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia, a regional body of the Protestant Church in Germany. It is located in Berlin on the Kurfürstendamm in the centre of the Breitscheidplatz.
Ruin of the imperial church, not rebuilt as a reminder of World War II – the modern church's belfry, built in 1963, is visible to the right.
The old church around 1900
Exterior of the new church
Interior of the new church