Treptower Park and the Soviet Memorial

Treptower Park, is quite a large park, where it begins by running along the river Spree, where there are many boat trips, that have their starting point there for cruising along the river, and seeing Berlin, from the waters view,

Treptower is quite a lovely little park, great place to relax, have a picnic and to also catch up with friends as well :)

Now the Soviet war Memorial that is located at Treptower park,

my first impressions of this was at just how huge it looked, because this is the first time i have seen a war memorial this big before,

there is a lot of detail gone in to the making of this memorial

Here some details of  it taken from the Visit Berlin webpage

100,000 square metres the largest of its kind in Germany. The facility, also serving as cemetery for 5,000 Soviet solders, was built between 1946 and 1948. Memorial slabs and frescos depicting the course of the war are arranged in long tiers of straight lines. The imposing figure on top of the mausoleum shows a soldier carrying a rescued German child. It is a memorial for the app. 80,000 Red Army soldiers killed during the conquest of Berlin in World War II. 40,000 cubic metres of granite were used in the construction. Aside from the war cemetery in Niederschönhausen, the facility is the largest Soviet war cemetery in Germany as well as the largest anti-fascist memorial in Western Europe.


Here are a few pictures of this pretty amazing memorial