Ive read recently that Manfred von Richtofen was buried in Wiesbaden, Germany. Ive often seen photographs of the Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel's gravesite near Ulm, but I was wondering has anyone ever been to see the Red Baron's final resting place?
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nope...but here it is
http://www.google.com/search?q=photo...w=1024&bih=585
It says he was buried saille le Sec France originally....so the grave must have been moved post war.
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When I clicked on the google link it tried to install software on my computer. I was able to stop it, but did anybody else have that issue? Just curious if it is something with the link or something already on my computer.Originally posted by juoneen View PostComment
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According to wikipedia:
"In the early 1920s the French authorities created a military cemetery at Fricourt, in which a very large number of German war dead, including Richthofen, were reinterred. In 1925, Manfred von Richthofen's youngest brother, Bolko, recovered the body from Fricourt and took the Red Baron home to Germany. The family's intention was for Manfred to rest in the Schweidnitz cemetery, next to the graves of his father and his brother Lothar, who had been killed in a post-war air crash in 1922.[53] The German government requested, however, that the final resting place be the Invalidenfriedhof Cemetery in Berlin, where many German military heroes and past leaders were buried and the family agreed. Later the Nazi regime organised a grandiose memorial ceremony over this grave, erecting a massive new tombstone with the single word: “Richthofen”.[54] During the Cold War the Invalidenfriedhof was on the boundary of the Soviet zone in Berlin, and the tombstone became pockmarked with bullets fired at attempted escapees to the west. In 1975, the remains were moved to a family plot at the Südfriedhof in Wiesbaden, where he is buried next to his brother Bolko, his sister Elisabeth and her husband."Comment
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