Explanation of the Purpose of this Website:
The purpose of this
website is to memorialize the names of the dead and to collect,
archive and make publicly available, particularly for use by
genealogists, inscriptions from war memorials of the German and
Austrian armies. The term “war memorial” should be read broadly,
as it is meant to include memorial books (such as the
RJF Memorial Book, which
memorializes Jewish World War 1 casualties of the German armed forces), lists of casualties kept by municipalities
and grave inscriptions from war cemeteries, particularly where
they are located far from home.
The inscriptions
collected here commemorate German and Austrian soldiers killed in
various wars throughout history. They were gathered and
contributed by volunteers. The collection will be expanded
constantly, but it is dependent on contributions. English
language instructions for contributing, as well as a form for
submitting contributions, can be found
here.
The collection is
limited to monuments to fallen soldiers of the German and Austrian
armed forces of all wars. The website is arranged by country and
region and covers the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and the
former German eastern territories. There is also a category of
monuments located in other countries. In order to be taken into
the collection, a monument must commemorate fallen soldiers of Germany
or Austria. The location of the monument is not important.
We
hope that the names of the dead will remind us of the insanity of war.
Thilo C. Agthe
webmaster@denkmalprojekt.org
Last Change:
March 25, 2011
