Commemoration and Cult of the Fallen in Germany post-1918

The First World War was commemorated in numerous ways in post-1918 Germany. Local and national monuments and activities of veterans? organizations? were some of the most visible forms of commemoration, although not the only ones. These commemorations rarely created unified mourning. Statements about the present and the future of Germany were linked to how the country commemorated its war dead. In contrast to what is often assumed, veterans? associations supporting the German Republic were as present in these debates as their anti-democratic counterparts. War commemorations in Weimar Germany did not create unifying national sites of mourning but commemorative practices were also not confined to national conservative or anti-republican sentiments.