Memorials in Germany

This natural hill rose another 130 feet from the debris and rubble added after World War II.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.