The aftermath of the First World War, with its appalling body count and wholesale devastation, was a period of great memorial construction. In this “democracy of death,” there were attempts across the former belligerent states, with the exception of Soviet Russia, to honor all the war dead, irrespective of rank, and including the unknown dead. …
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Of Monuments and Memory 