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Invalids' Cemetery

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The degradation of the cemetery continued in the 1970s, when soldiers stationed nearby began to use abandoned or damaged gravestones to build shelters in case of bad weather. It was probably only the fact that the cemetery contained the graves of German freedom fighters like Scharnhorst, regarded by
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In December 2019 the unmarked grave of Reinhard Heydrich in the cemetery was opened, with police launching an investigation after a cemetery employee made the discovery. Stating that no remains had been removed, the police believe that whoever violated Heydrich's grave is thought to have had inside
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in 1990 the cemetery came under the monument protection scheme and restoration work began. There is now a memorial to Berliners killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall in the cemetery. The cemetery also contains an unmarked mass grave of Berliners killed in allied Air Raids.
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ordered that all Nazi monuments (including those in cemeteries) should be removed, and this resulted in the removal of the grave-markers of Heydrich and Todt, although their remains were not disinterred.
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city council closed the cemetery off to the public so that repairs and restoration could be carried out, and to prevent any further damage of the graves. Since it lay close to the
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Former death zone (Todesstreifen) in the cemetery with the rest of the Berlin Wall (Hinterlandmauer – left), right: the western wall of the cemetery
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continued to be buried in the cemetery, but approximately half the graves were gardened over in this period.
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should become the burial ground for all distinguished Prussian military personnel, including
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3d art project "Ghost – Memory Deconstructed" on the Invalid's Cemetery in Berlin
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The cemetery was established in 1748 to provide burial grounds for those
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Looking west to the Graves of Scharnhorst, Boyen and the Rauch family
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with a sculpture of a slumbering lion cast out of captured cannon by
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1881 – Karl Julius von Groß (later von Groß von Schwarzhoff)
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Der Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin und seine Wiederherstellung
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as its forerunners, that prevented its total destruction.
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Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel Graf Tauentzien von Wittenberg
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