It was erected in East Prussia (Germany) - land which after WW II became incorporated to Poland as part of the so called Recovered Territories. The Tannenberg Memorial, designed by the brothers Walter (1880–1971) and Johannes (1890–1975) Krüger, is one of the “pre-Nazi” monuments erected prior to 1933 and incorporated into the idiom of the Third Reich propaganda. The appropriation of earlier elements of tangible culture for the construction of new buildings was popular since Antiquity. The afterlife of old monuments of architecture and sculptures is called spolia.
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