Word: invaliden
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...Defense) Minister and reassumed the pre-War title of Kriegsminister (Minister of War). The Reichswehr, too, dropped that name, which it has never liked, to become again Germany's Heer. To cap the day, Kriegsminister von Blomberg performed a little ceremony. He went out to the Invaliden Cemetery, laid wreaths on the graves of two significant heroes of Prussia's wars against Napoleon Bonaparte: General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, who introduced universal compulsory military training into Prussia, and General Hermann von Boyen, who beat French restrictions on the size of the Prussian Army by training successive batches of reserves...
Later, eight of the Baron's war comrades bore the coffin to the famed Invaliden Cemetery, while German aces who had fought with him during the War soared above the funeral procession and dropped flowers and wreaths.* President von Hindenburg, Chancellor Luther and War Minister Gessler solemnly accompanied the aging mother of Baron von Richthofen to his new grave. And there were present scores of generals from all parts of Germany, as well as a company of the Baron's Uhlan regiment, which fired a last salute over his grave...
Inclosed in a special sarcophagus, the body is to be re-interned in the famed Invaliden Churchyard at Berlin. It is reported that President von Hindenburg and, so far as possible, "every living German War hero" will participate in the funeral...
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