HINDENBURG STATUE

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 272, 19 November 1919, Page 3

HINDENBURG STATUE

BERLIN

Sept. 30

The great wooden yon Hindenburg monument, which during the war was studded by the populace with nails, representing so much money., has, it was recently reported, been dismantled for fuel. The dedication of the colossal "iron Hindenburg"— a 30-foot wooden statue—destined to be sheathed with gold, silver, and iron nails bought in the interest of a fund for the'rehabilitation of East Prussia, took place in Berlin on 4th September, 1915. The statue stands in the square surrounding the column of victory. The Princess August Wilhelm, representing the Empress, drove the first gold nail into the base of the statue. Other possessors of gold nails, bought fdr 100 marks each, then filed up in seemingly endless procession. The silver nails cost five marks each and the iron one mark. For a long period of the war the operation of driving nails into the statue was. continued, and many hundreds of thousands of marks were obtained in this way.