VeitchMuch: Odds and Ends Around Munich

Here are some of the odd ball photos of things I've discovered
wandering around Munich. Above is the symbol of Bayern, a monk!
found inside the Rathaus in downtown Munich. The Rathaus is
the large central municipal building that looks like a Gothic Cathedral.
Somehow, thismonstrously huge building survived the bombing of World War II.

As I poked my nose into various halls and side rooms, I came across
this truly bizarre stained glass window depicting George Washington
and Benjamin Franklin. In the middle are the words "Liberty."
It is worth noting that downstairs from this window ( and there was another
depicting Abraham Lincoln , Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie) is a small memorial to the 1000 Jews who were taken away to Dachau from Munich in one fell swoop in, I believe, 1943. It is the only public memorial to the Holocaust outside of the museums that I have found. Maybe the stained glass was put in after the War? Not sure.

Behind my house here is a very old cemetery called Nordfriedhof. It is a very large and very flower and candle covered place. Right now it is sporting a Christmas motif and looks very festive. In the center are some very ancient gravestones surrounded by what appears to be large patches of open grass. When you start walking the lawns however, you find hundreds if not thousands of small plaques in the ground with just a name and date of death. These are the Munich residents who died in the bombing during the War.

These really amazing flowerpots are part of the annual memorial to the war dead set across the lawns. There must have been at least 12 of these scattered about. The plaques are spaced about 12 inches apart across the whole lawn-maybe 5 acres or more.