Monument aux morts, Place de la République, Strasbourg

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The Monument to the Dead of Strasbourg is located in the Place de la République in Strasbourg, the capital of the Grand Est region and the Bas-Rhin department. He was raised in 1936 in memory of the city's children killed in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. This was the first armed conflict that involved so many countries around the world. More than eight million people died and six million invalids died. The monument to the dead of Strasbourg was inaugurated on 18 October 1936 by President Albert Lebrun. It bears as the only inscription "To our dead" without mentioning the homeland for which the soldiers fell. Indeed, the region was at the mercy of wars between German and French, and Alsatians fell into battle on both sides.

Situation: The Monument to the Dead of Strasbourg is located in the centre of the Place de la République de Strasbourg, an institutional centre of the city built in the "Metal Berlin" style in the 1880s by the German Empire, and subsequently used by the French administration.