Word: monuments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, on the fifth anniversary of the ghetto uprising, 12,000 Jews assembled on the spot where the first shots were fired. There they dedicated a monument to the heroes of the ghetto and to the 3,500,000 other Jews killed in Poland...
...Adolf Hitler felt fairly confident about the future. He sent an order to Sweden for grey granite; he planned a giant victory monument in Berlin...
Delegations of Jews from 20 nations, including the U.S., laid wreaths and banners against the monument-a wall built of broken bricks from the ghetto's rubble piles. Mounted in a front niche was a bronze plaque showing armed men & women straining toward freedom...
...Race to the Dead. The Berlin city authorities had urged all political parties to take part in ceremonies commemorating the "March Dead." But the Communist-run Socialist Unity Party (S.E.D.) balked. It wanted its own ceremony. The authorities went ahead, ordered a granite monument. It was to be unveiled at 8 a.m., so that the S.E.D. would not be able to get to the cemetery first...
...Communists are early risers. At 7:45, the S.E.D. vanguard arrived, panting. They placed wreaths before the still veiled monument to the memory of the men who had believed in a freedom which Communists have always denounced as "bourgeois liberalism," and which today they are seeking to destroy...