Sudfriedhof

Yay! A great big cemetery. If you followed our trip to Bavaria, you'd know we like to visit cemeteries. This is Leipzig's biggest, and honestly we wandered into by accident because we saw the tower of the central building. I said, "That looks like a monastery, let's go look." It wasn't. It was the main building of the South Cemetery, which contains various halls, funeral rooms, and a crematorium. It didn't look like you could visit, but we didn't walk too far inside. We're not ready to get in trouble yet...

So we wandered around the cemetery, took some pictures. We found the 1948 monument to the victims of fascism, and it brings up a lot of interesting points on how the NSDAP period was addressed in post war DDR. It reminded me of what the historian Claudia Koonz told me way back in the early 1990s, about how the DDR viewed the period so much differently than the West. I'm trying to avoid such touchy political commentary, so look at the pretty pictures.

The inscription on the monument front and back says: "Led to death, but behold, we are living," and "the victims of fascism admonish us". I had help with that, thank you DeepL translate. Google translate-- be better.

So look at the pictures, while I remind myself to be quiet. Oh, don't miss the picture of the squirrel!Read more