2025-08(Aug)-30(Sat)—1820EDT

I walked by this graveyard many times while living in Berlin (it was between my apartment and the central museums). By the time I lived there, the grave had gone through the following:

  1. Communists, after the war, destroyed everything but the names.
  2. Communists dug up the remains (and the remains of his brother) and (presumably) threw them in the nearby river.
  3. Communists destroyed everything but “Wessel” — marking the grave of Horst’s father.
  4. The headstone was removed and the ground levelled.

When I say they will erase everything, I am not exaggerating in the least.