The Biggest Monument In Europe
The shadow of a new war was already casting a long shadow in 1913. Yet
it was the year when the people of the city of Leipzig in the German
state of Saxony saw the completion of their monument to a battle which
had taken place exactly a century before.The Monument to the Battle of Nations commemorated the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig. However, for almost a century after its inauguration, this remembrance of a battle of the past would be used by one group or another for their own ideological purposes.
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