110601 08 Vladslo, Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof

[UNVERIFIED CONTENT] Käthe Kollwitz lost her youngest son Peter on the battlefield in World War I in October 1914, prompting a prolonged depression. By the end of the year she had made drawings for a monument to Peter and his fallen comrades; she destroyed the monument in 1919 and began again in 1925. The memorial, titled The Grieving Parents, was finally completed and placed in the Belgian cemetery of Roggevelde in 1932.[17] Later, when Peter's grave was moved to the nearby Vladslo German war cemetery, the statues were also moved.