Somebody, we don’t know who, stuck 20 centimeter long fabric ribbons into a flower bowl at the foot of the memorial stone. One is black, the second white, a third red. It would be naive to view the color selection as a coincidence. Black, white, red – these are the colors of the imperial war flag, a symbol around which right-wing radicals rallied in the Weimar Republic and which can now often be seen at demonstrations by neo-Nazis and other right-wing enemies of democracy. This emblem now adorns, albeit discreetly, a memorial stone in the forest cemetery, which was obviously erected by the city of Munich. Next to a cross, an inscription is carved into the stone, which is approximately two and a half meters high: “The city of Munich to its liberators who fell in the May battles of 1919.”
Munich: Who does the “Hussar Grave” in the Waldfriedhof honor? – Munich
