Tannenberg Memorial
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The Tannenberg Memorial was a monument to the German soldiers of the Battle of Tannenberg and the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes during World War I, as well as the medieval Battle of Tannenberg of
View of the Memorial in 1934 (Funeral for the first burial of Generalfeldmarschall Hindenburg)
Aerial view 1944, from a Luftwaffe plane.
Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg
Remains of the Tannenberg Memorial, 1998
Olsztynek
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Olsztynek is a town in northern Poland, in Olsztyn County, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is the administrative seat of Gmina Olsztynek. It is part of the ethnocultural region of Masuria.
Tannenberg Memorial
…hero and was later interred at the site. Dedicated by Hindenburg in 1924, on the tenth anniversary of the Battle of Tannenberg near Hohenstein (now Olsztynek, Poland), the structure, which was financed by donations, was built by the architects Johannes and Walter Krüger of Berlin, and completed in 1927. The…
Market Square and town hall
Olsztynek Castle
Former Protestant church
Gothic Revival Sacred Heart church