
Victory Column
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Goldelse stands on thirty-five tons of melted cannons. The bronze came from wars Prussia won. Denmark. Austria. France.
She was born in eighteen seventy-three. Back then she stood in front of the Reichstag, facing south toward a victory parade avenue.
Then Hitler moved her. Nineteen thirty-eight. Albert Speer wanted a new Berlin. They lifted the column, walked it two kilometers west, made it taller.
The bombs fell everywhere. But she stood in Tiergarten, far from factories and train stations. The war passed around her.
After the war, France wanted her destroyed. The mosaic inside shows German victory over France. But Britain and America said no.
Now she faces west. Toward France. The country she was built to defeat. Two hundred eighty-five steps to the top. She survived because Berlin moved her twice. Pick this location and we'll tell you the whole story.
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