The Bismarck Memorial, located in Berlin's Tiergarten is a prominent memorial to Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Minister of Prussia and later the first Chancellor of Germany. The massive memorial portrays Bismarck in his ceremonial garb as Chancellor standing above statues of Atlas (mythology), showing Germany's world power status at the end of the Nineteenth Century, Siegfried, forging a sword to show Germany's strong industrial and military might, a woman with a slaid pahther underfoot, symbolizing the supression of sedition by the state, and another woman atop a sphynx reading a document (statesmanship). Berlin is the capital city and a single state of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Tiergarten (Animal Garden) is a large park and a former borough of Berlin, since 2001 a part of the expanded borough Mitte. ... For alternative meanings: See Bismarck (disambiguation). ... In Greek mythology, Atlas was a member of a race of giant gods known as Titans. ...
An interesting fact unknown to many Berliners is that this statue, along with the famous Berlin victory column were once located in front of the Reichstag building before they were moved by Hitler in his project to recast Berlin as Welthauptstadt Germania. The colossal statue weathered a marked amount of shrapnel damage during World War II, but has survived largely intact to the present day. Berlin Siegessäule (June 2003) The Victory Column (Siegessäule in German) is one of the more famous sights of Berlin. ... the Reichstag building (June 2003) A Red Army soldier flies the Soviet flag over the Reichstag The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed as the place where the Reichstag, the parliament of the German Empire, would convene. ... Welthauptstadt (World Capital) Germania was the name Adolf Hitler gave to the projected renewal of the German Capital, part of his vision for the future of Germany after the proposed victory in World War II. Albert Speer, the first architect of the Third Reich, produced many of the plans for...
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