global corporations ultimately it s up to us the very survival of our freedom depends on us. but one also has fish to learn come what we can learn from history is that freedom can never be taken for granted because disappear very suddenly systems can break down even today those revolutions and authoritarian regimes can emerge seemingly out of nowhere among them as such freedom is something that we must constantly fight for and protect those of us with me said our constitution and laws don t completely guarantee it also it s something that has to be cemented as a manifestation of democracy the most. since the end of the 2nd world war the german people have struggled for their freedom they fought the legacy of the nazi era withstood foreign and domestic threats and stood fast for the values of democracy. following reunification in 1900 the nation as a whole has finally come to enjoy its freedom for longer than any other time in its
square meter for a married couple. the flu since the advent of low maintenance grades for instance in part cemeteries each grave is generally marked by a stone slab with the name and with details or even with symbols of. the impressions of. the lawn is mowed regularly by the cemetery gardener the system is cheap and the cemetery always looks good. under this cross the graves are spread out in a particular pattern you ll find this phenomenon in all the larger german cemeteries their graves that pay testimony to the horror of war. when he visited we ve conducted studies on war graves at the university and established that people believe it s very important to know where their soldier relative is buried or have a photo of the burial site
a photo of the cross on the grave or of the hysterical and i also believe it s important to visit the place as does not ought to be. an example from history the former colony german south west africa present day no media. between 1000 no 4 and 1800 the 2nd unleashed a shocking war of annihilation on the indigenous herero people. an estimated 80000 herero died as well as several 100 german troops. the germans were buried with military honors and more than 100 years later the graves are still maintained by the german war graves commission. but these crosses don t mark only soldiers graves the dead include civilian
the borzois era a tradition of splendid was cultivated in which the middle class individual was honored in the cemetery a list of his achievements and possibly a statue on which incredible sums of money was spent thus is is to launch the so-called monument culture that we had my own older than cemeteries but when your facts were admiring i achieved months of the urban borsch was evil and. not them slight and they click after the 2nd world war the splendor of the memorial culture associated with abortion era disappeared from german cemeteries with the experience of the war and the holocaust hanging over them germans no longer wanted to celebrate death but important. had seen too much horror joining the 2nd
victims of allied bombing raids in the 2nd world war some of them children women and old people. these graves are not a glorification of war but a memorial to the suffering it causes a cemetery is intended to give consolation. abdon obviously it consoles me when somebody embraces me and says the grind it does when that happens here the 2 of you know meet up and sit on a bench together and ask each other how they re doing out in the flesh and then he can say i had a bad nights i didn t sleep well i miss him so much toast people comfort each other like you listen and i know when i come here this time of day i ll meet hama dozens people who know about each other i said what and that. caused. it was your toilets also consoling simply to enter the silence. perhaps in