Six Word Saturday
Tag: peace
Gesture of a Hand for Peace
Six Word Saturday
Oh, the Irony!
This is the Friedensengel (peace angel) in Munich. Built about 20 years after the Franco-Prussian war the angel is an imitation of the Greek victory goddess Nike of Paionios (a Greek sculptor who lived in the 5th century BC), a synonym for a victory achieved with … Continue reading Oh, the Irony!
Huge and Tiny
The mural on this building in Mannheim is called “Nations in Peace – Colourful Cultures”. It has been designed with students from two schools under the guidance of the artist Bahaiden.
This painted pebble has the same message – albeit on a much smaller scale.
Both are necessary.
Nations in Peace
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
Thomas Huxley
This mural was conceived and transferred to the highrise building by the internationally acclaimed Bahaider. He based it on working with students from this area in Mannheim, who expressed their different ethnic and cultural heritage in drawings. He wanted to remind us that living together peacefully doesn’t happen intuitively but needs mutual respect and tolerance, in a neighbourhood where people with backgrounds of more than 127 nations live. The piece is called Nationen in Frieden (Nations in Peace).
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by the quote from Thomas Huxley, click here.
Our obligation: peace
This is the war cemetery in Brandau im Odenwald. 461 dead from the first and second world war are buried here, among them soldiers, known and unknown, of various nationalities, forced labourers and displaced persons, e.g. survivors from concentration camps who did not return to their homes. Tragically, there are also a few graves of children who were born during this time to mothers who were deported and forced to work in Germany. The cemetery is cared for by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V., a humanitarian organisation whose tasks include caring for cemeteries in Germany and looking after graves of German soldiers and war victims outside of Germany, also helping relatives to locate graves of missing family members.
The driving ethics behind the organisation is to work for peace.
The inscription in the chapel reads: Our sacrifice – your duty – peace.
A list of all the graves and the people buried is kept in the wall and can be consulted by visitors to the graveyard. The individual graves are marked with names, dates, nationalities and, in the case of German soldiers, with their ranks.
The sign of the organisation with the details for donation. The words are the beginning of the German Basic Constitutional Law: “Human dignity is inviolable.”
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