Having returned from an 11-day Baltic Sea cruise yesterday, I can now add images of two more well-known German memorials to this thread. The photographs were taken from deck 14 of our cruise ship as we were passing through the Kiel Fjord and heading out to the open sea.
The U-Boot-Ehrenmal [U-Boat Memorial] at Möltenort in Heiligendorf near Kiel. The memorial was inaugurated on 9 June 1930; due to structural faults, it had to be re-built in 1938. It is the official memorial site for the German submariners of WW1, WW2 and the post-war years who lost their lives in the line of duty. Their names are inscribed on 115 bronze plaques. Note the U-Boat badge below the eagle; during the Third Reich, a swastika was affixed in this place:
The Marine-Ehrenmal [Navy Memorial] in Laboe. Built from 1927 to 1936, this was originally the memorial for the German navy members who were killed in WW1. It is now dedicated to the memory of all seamen from all nations who lost their lives at sea. Since 1972, the WW2 era U-Boat U 995 - now a museum ship - has found its permanent home near the foot of the 72-meter-high tower:
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