The Niederwald Monument is located on the edge of the Niederwald Landscape Park above the town of Rüdesheim am Rhein. At its feet are the vineyards of the Rüdesheimer Berg.

The monument was intended to commemorate the unification of Germany in 1871. Planning and construction took a total of twelve years from the first suggestion in 1871 to the inauguration on September 28, 1883. Construction took six years.

Together with the Barbarossa Monument on the Kyffhäuserberg, the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz, the Hermann Monument near Detmold on the southern Teutoburg Forest, the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument at the Porta Westfalica, the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig, the Bismarck Monument in Hamburg and the Walhalla near Donaustauf, the Niederwald Monument is one of Germany's monumental commemorative structures predominantly built during the German Empire.

Since 2002, the Niederwalddenkmal has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley.

Den Norske Legion (1941)

Indian Legion / Indische Legion

However the story is not correct — they were continuously deployed in active duty.

Concerning the Saint-slaying Soviet regime and army during the 2nd World War

Gé Korsten (1980). Stille Nag.

“Salvation is more than forgiveness. It is a genuine renewal of man. And this renewal is effected not by the discharge, or release of certain natural energies implied in man’s own creaturely being, but by the ‘energies’ of God Himself, who thereby encounters and encompasses man, and admits him into communion ‘with Himself.” George Florovsky “St. Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers”☦

Architecture: Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood, Saint Petersburg, Russia

O Tannenbaum german with pictures from the second world war

"And at that time shall Michael arise, the great angel who has charge over your people; and there shall be a time of trouble such as never has been like it since the beginning of the world; and at that very time some of your people shall be delivered, every one whose name shall be found written in the book." (Daniel)

"He who brings the peril at that time will himself protect those who fall into peril, who have works and have faith in the Almighty." (Ezra)

Art: Tintoretto. Battle of the Archangel Michael and the Satan

A Soviet T-55 tank ramming a streetcar blocking the road. Prague. Czechoslovakia. 1968 г.