1.0 link 113941 <![CDATA[Barack Obama Campaign Says He Will Speak At Berlin's Victory Column]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/20/barack-obama-campaign-say_n_113941.html 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,...

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