![]() ![]() Dignified burialĪlthough more people were killed in the Great War than in any war before, there was a general consensus in both the victorious and the defeated countries that every fallen soldier was entitled to a proper burial and that the nation had to ensure that his name was not forgotten. These tombs have become national shrines, with the Unknown Soldier standing at the heart of a political cult of the dead. Today more than 50 countries have a war memorial housing the remains of an unidentified soldier. After 1945 it became a global phenomenon. It started in France and Britain in 1920 and was soon taken up in other European countries and the United States of America. ![]() The proliferation of centrally placed Tombs of the Unknown Soldier is a result of the democratisation of war remembrance in the wake of the Great War. Ahead of the of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, Professor Christoph Mick, from the University of Warwick’s Department of History, examines the story of the Tombs of the Unknown Soldiers.
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