THE FACE OF HISTORY AND TOUCHING EVENT

 The Möltenort U-Boat Memorial (U-Boot-Ehrenmal Möltenort), 1939 and today.  Located in Heikendorf near Kiel, Germany, the impressive 65-foot tall monument commemorates the sailors who died serving in U-Boat units during the First and Second World Wars, along with all victims of submarine warfare. It was originally built in 1930, but after suffering structural damage, it was rebuilt in 1938.  In an arched gallery area behind the monument, the names of fallen German U-Boat men of the German Imperial Navy and the Kriegsmarine, along with those who died serving in the postwar German Navy, are displayed on 115 bronze plaques. The U-Boot war badge is attached to the pillar; until 1945 its position had been occupied by a swastika.

 The Somme, such a sweet region in the north of France, was, more than a hundred years ago, a hell of fire, blood and steel for an entire generation of young men who fought here in the deadliest battles of the great war and who, in the barbed wire, under the shells and the bullets, were swept away by the brutality, the savagery of the war which drowned them in darkness, in the madness of a world which sank into despair and which pushed so many men in the prime of their lives killing each other in the mud in absolute rage and side by side, bayonets forward, in the whistling of shrapnel, in the chaos, threw themselves on each other and gave each other death in the shock of guns which rained lead and blood of young boys who gave their all in the name of peace and freedom who were won by so many sacrifices through battles in which courage was seen , the compassion, the camaraderie which brought together these heroes and who, with loyalty and honor, with bravery, did their duty until th...