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Ceremonies in honor of the Day of the Unknown Soldier were held in Germany at memorials built in honor of Soviet soldiers and in cemeteries where Red Army soldiers who died during World War II are buried. Russian diplomats and emigrants living in Germany attended the events.
A wreath-laying ceremony was held at the Soviet memorial in the Tiergarten. Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechaev and other employees of the Russian embassy, as well as clergymen, compatriots and schoolchildren at the Russian embassy took part in it.
About 2,500 soldiers who died in the battles for Berlin are buried in the Tiergarten; the memorial was created in 1945.
A commemorative event was held in Cologne for the Day of the Unknown Soldier in honor of the heroes tortured by the Nazis.
The event at the Huert-Knapzak cemetery, where 106 Soviet prisoners of war are buried, was held by the "Memory for the Future" public organization with the participation of the Russian Consulate General in Bonn and members of the "Ataman" international Cossack association.
Before the action, the organizers and volunteers put the territory in order. As part of the event, flowers and wreaths were laid, words were said in memory of the soldiers. An Orthodox priest served a requiem for the dead.
Russkiy Mir
