Connecting War and the Arts
On 2 April 2009, the news agency Xinhua reported that China launched an online memorial for this year’s remembrance day to commemorate its revolutionary heroes.
Continue reading “Virtual Revolutionary Heroes’ Memorial in China”
The sail (command tower) of the Russian submarine K-141 Kursk that sunk on 12 August 2000 was planned to become a memorial in Murmansk for the 118 submariners killed in that disaster. However, the journalist Tatyana Abramova from the newspaper Murmanskiy Vestnik now discovered the sail at a scrap metal merchant.
The US-company Odyssey Marine Exploration, specialised on rediscovering and salvaging shipwrecks, announced the discovery of the ship of the line H.M.S. Victory in the English Channel. Continue reading “H.M.S. Victory discovered”
Since 1996, Germany has a memorial day for the victims of National Socialism on the day the Concentration Camps in Auschwitz had been liberated by Sowjet troops. Continue reading “Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism”