Mahnmal

English Noun en Germanism a de Mahnmal en 2009 K. Michael Prince War and German Memory 0739139452 A Mahnmal seeks to transmit the more forceful urgency of a warning, an admonition or an exhortation. Though Mahnmals are most often associated with the sites of former concentration camps and other Holocaust memorials, they also may bear an antiwar message, German de 2013 November 12 right|thumb|This sculpture of a mother holding her dead son, located in the Neue Wache in Berlin, is a Mahnmal to the destruction of war. Etymology de :af mahnen<t:remind (someone of something) pressingly; warn (someone of something); urge (someone to do something necessary)> Mal de mahnen remind (someone of something) pressingly; warn (someone of something); urge (someone to do something necessary) Mal Pronunciation de [ˈmaːnˌmaːl] de De-Mahnmal.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun n,(e)s,e:^er A monument that serves as a reminder of a tragic event and a warning that the event should not be allowed to occur again. de 1999 Mahnmal Mitte: eine Kontroverse 322 (Es gibt kein Hiroshima-Mahnmal in Washington.) (There is no monument in Washington [D.C.] to remind people of Hiroshima.) de 2010 Dunkle Welten: Bunker, Tunnel und Gewölbe unter Berlin 65 Ein mit leeren Regalen versehener Raum, in den man vom Bebelplatz durch eine Glasscheibe hinunterschauen kann, erinnert dort als Mahnmal an die Bücherverbrennungen vom 10. Mai 1933. A room full of empty bookshelves, which one can look down into from the Bebelplatz via a glass panel, serves as a monument to remind people of the book-burnings of 10 May 1933. Hypernyms de Denkmal Further reading