This is the Teutoburg Forest / The Tacitus describes, / This is the classic quagmire, / Where stuck varus.
Here he struck the Cheruskerfürst / The Hermann, the noble warrior, / The German nationality, / The winner in this Drecke.
When Hermann did not win the battle / With his blond hordes, / Then there'd no longer the German freedom, / We would become Roman!
Prevailed in our country now / Only Roman language and manners / Vestals in Munich there'd even / The Swabians were called Qiriten! 1
... In fact, hardly imagine what would have happened if the civilization a few centuries earlier had come to Germany. Perhaps we would be deprived of the Middle Ages have been!
Although the ironic undertone of Heine's hard to ignore, he admits in the last verse but one that he himself had "subskribieret", has also contributed his mite:
"Oh Herman, you owe us that! / Drum you will, how behooves, / To set a monument Detmold, / Have yourself subskribieret ".
Of about 27 meters high Arminius holding in his outstretched right hand a sword of about seven meters high (inscription: Germany's unity, my strength / My strength, power, Germany). This victory pose is, of course, coined for the triumph of the Germanic army under Hermann Cherusci in year 9 (wherever it might have been happening really). But the compass direction in which points the sword is definitely not the South (Rome), but the West (France) and the political context of the time of construction of the monument (1838-75) owed. France was to serve the victory of the Cherusci and its allies against the Romans as a reminder. A particularly high patriotic feeling you will have had in the opening year, where it is the - has "Italians" shown again - this time French. And they will be charged Wilhem II also added after 1871 inscriptions in direct successor of Arminius:
"The long separate tribes united with a strong hand, The Gallic power and malice überwandt victorious, the long-lost sons brings home to the German Empire, Armin, the savior, he is the same.
Wilhelm, Kaiser, 22 March 1797, King of Prussia, 2nd January 1861. First Emperor's Day, Versailles, 18 January 1871, 17th war July 1870, 26th peace February 1871. "
On 17 July 1870 declared Emperor of France, Louis Napoleon, Prussia to war because erstunden all tribes of Germany and exacted retribution from August 1870 to January 1871 always victorious French arrogance, led by King William of Prussia, the German people on 18 January for his eventually chose.
Just because the German people verwelscht and disagreement become powerless, was Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, with German subjugate Germany, since 1813 finally gathered around the raised sword of Prussia all the German tribes to their homeland and freedom from shame erkämpfend. Leipzig, 18 October 1813 - Paris, 31 March 1814 - Waterloo, 18 June 1815 - Paris, 3 Juli 1815th
Arminius Liberator haud Dubie Germaniae et qui non primordia populi Romani, sicut alii keen ducesque, sed florentissimum imperium lacessieret: proeliis ambiguus, bello non Victus. 2
It is not unlikely that French reparations (5 billion francs) also contributed to the construction of this construct, as in so many buildings in the "early days".
During World War II, the monument was of course well-suited as a symbol of anti-French. After Italy entered the war on the Allied side in 1915, it served also as against the "traitorous Romans" directional symbol. Just before the next war was forgotten, and we took into consideration the sensitivities of the Italian allies and ran for Mussolini in 1936, therefore, an originally planned visit to the Memorial Hermann, as this would misunderstand and can be offended.
Estimated observer should direct his attention to the lower right side of picture: there are the Roman eagle (visible) and behind (not visible), the two other insignia of the Roman Empire, that bundle of rods and ax (fasces). Arminius' foot rests now in addition to casual degrading the breastbone of the Eagle - Rome is defeated. The fasces fasces, or were ("bind" lictors, from Latin to lictores ligare,) ushers of the Roman kings, consuls, praetors and worn as a symbol of power forward.
The original mission was to the lictors, clear the way for freely officials. It also whips they used to drive away onlookers. The ax was a symbol of the death penalty, which could be arranged by the officials, is being considered here is that Roman citizens could not be sentenced to death without further ado. For this reason, the axes were always inserted only outside the Roman city limits. Later served with a leather-bound bundles of rods to rods only as a symbol of power of the Roman Empire and the Roman ruler or his deputies (consul, emperor, governor). Another explanation might be the symbolism that a single rod is easier to break than a bundle.
Benito Mussolini wanted to go back to glory and splendor of the Roman Empire, and chose for his political movement of the character of the lictors. Mussolini hoped to establish how the Romans an empire around the Mediterranean around. Therefore, the term derives from the Latin fasces of fascism or Italian fascio from.
The current emblem of France, the insignia of the 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Italian No. 1), the Spanish Guardia Civil as well as the emblem of the Swiss Canton of St. Gallen indicate a fasces. The symbol of the U.S. Senate has two crossed fasces. The crest used on the national flag of Ecuador shows a bundle of rods.
The Bolzano Victory Monument, which dates from the period of fascism, also shows lictors provided with columns and pilasters.
Even Martin Luther had Arminius "of Hertzen lib", but this was exactly how he fought against Rome itself.
The sword bears the inscription:
Germany's unity, my e Stärk
My strength, power, Germany.
The sign reads: Trustee hard.
- Heinrich Heine, Germany A Winter's Tale, Caput XI, verses 1-4 [ ← ]
- Tacitus, Annales, II, 88: Armin undoubtedly Germany [Germania] liberator of the Roman people has not afflicted in his early days as other kings and generals, but in the full bloom of his reign: not in battles with varying success, in war defeated. [ ← ]
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