Soviet War Memorial Tiergarten
Here, in the Großer Tiergarten, the Soviet War Memorial—Sowjetisches Kriegerdenkmal—was erected in 1945 to commemorate the Soviet war dead, especially the 80,000 soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces who died during the Battle of Berlin in April and May 1945. It sits along the north side of Straße des 17. Juni, on the edge of one of Berlin’s great public parks. Construction began only a few months after the city was captured. Early photographs show the memorial rising from a landscape of ruins: the Tiergarten had been devastated by incendiary bombing and then stripped of timber for firewood. The stonework used for the memorial was taken from the destroyed Reich Chancellery—an abrupt transfer of power and symbolism. The memorial’s design is a curved stoa with a large statue of a Soviet soldier, set amid gardens and flanked by two Red Army ML-20 152mm howitzers and two T-34 tanks. …
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