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The Best of Berlin (4K) - Tiergarten: Soviet War Memorial & Victory Column

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This is the Tiergarten and Soviet War Memorial segment of DIY Layover - Berlin and the host Charles Huang will visit two of the best free attractions. Tiergarten, located in the central district, it is one of the largest urban gardens of Germany. It is also home to many monuments, including the Soviet War Memorial, erected by the Soviet Union to commemorate its war dead, particularly the 80,000 soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces who died during the Battle of Berlin in April and May 1945. As well down the street the site of the Victory Column, a monument designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria and its German allies in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), giving the statue a new purpose. Different from the original plans, these later victories in the so-called unification wars inspired the addition of the bronze sculpture of Victoria.
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