The monument for the Serbian soldier in Konigsbruk renovated

Upon the initiative of the Serbian Embassy in Germany, German Association for Preserving Military Graveyards renovated the monument which is located at the place of former camp in Konigsbruk, near Dresden.

To this camp 4,000 war prisoners from Serbia were transported and of this number 176 of them died from the consequences of hard coercive labor, disease and exhaustion.

The monument to the Serbian soldier is a work of the French sculptor Edmond Delphau, who created it according to the face of two Serbian prisoners.

The statue dressed in then military uniform was presented in the position of a scout soldier.

During the war, this camp accommodated also Soviet, French and Italian prisoners, but the Serbian monument is the only one in the complex to present a human figure.

The ceremony was attended, on behalf of the Serbian Embassy in Germany, Consul Milica Topalović and the military representative, Colonel Nenad Milojević, and from the German side the present were addressed by the President and Vice President of the Parliament of the Saxony Province, Matias Resler and Andrea Dombois, Mayer of Konigsbruk Grit Truxa Richter as well as representatives of the Association for Preserving Military Graveyards, brigade general Dirk Baken and Dirk Raiz.

By this solemn event the Saxony province paid honored Serbian prisoners who were kept at camps at its territory during the First World War.

Source: Tanjug