Barack Obama Campaign Says He Will Speak At Berlin's Victory Column

Washington Post:

Sen. Barack Obama's campaign said today that his speech in Berlin on the future of trans-Atlantic relations will be delivered in front of a Prussian war monument, rather than the Brandenburg Gate.

The announcement triggered criticism in Germany that the Victory Column, or Siegessaeule, was an inappropriate landmark for the Thursday speech, since the 226-foot column honors Prussian triumphs over Denmark, Austria and France.

The Siegessaeule, built in 1873, stood in front of Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, until the late 1930s, when Adolf Hitler's architect, Albert Speer, moved it to its current location in the middle of the Tiergarten park.

Since German reunification, the column has become known as the central location for Berlin residents to party.

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Comments

[Kalima]

We Europeans are so humbled by your better late than never effort in Europe but would you
have joined if Pearl Harbour had not happened?

[Superbus]

What for? The French had already surrendered.

[Kalima]

I don't know why I even bother to reply, Europe consisted of more than just
the French at this time, painfully you as usual not informed enough, to
comment.

[JulieSA]

The British navy and Air force couldn't function without American oil. The Germans knew this, and many American merchant seamen were killed by U-boats while delivering oil and other supplies to the allies before the Pearl Harbor attack.

One of those men was my uncle.
You're welcome.

[Kalima]

I'm sorry to hear that, I lost 4 uncles too and never had a chance to meet
them. I get fed up with the constant Europe bashing here, I'm European.
I was asking someone a question and not being flippant.

[Superbus]

"Ich bin ein beginner", Barack Obama, July 2008

[SaulGoode]

That is a classic, Superbus

[VolvoBirkenstock]

You would be impressed by r a c i s t-supporting simpleton ignorant liar shortbus.

[Justsaynodeal]

is that the JFK quote which showed JFK was not well versed in German.........what was it? I am a phony in Berlin? I forget the interpretation, but it was something like that