Ehrenhain

Generalissimo Joseph Stalin is getting an Ehrenhain (literally a "grove of honor" like those used by Teutonic tribes to worship Wotan). The Stalin Ehrenhain which is now being built by the Soviet Army in Treptow Park in Berlin's Soviet sector will be dominated by a huge pink marble statue of the Generalissimo. The entire installation will be surrounded by a Kremlinlike wall.

Germans complained bitterly of the trainloads of building material being diverted to this enterprise in a country whose housing situation is critical. Some took pleasure in forecasting what they would do to the statue as soon as the Russian occupation was over. "We will blow it up. We will do a better job with that than the British did with our Tiergarten-Bunker."*

* Recently, the British tried to destroy an anti-aircraft bunker in Berlin's Tiergarten by setting off a 50,000-lb. charge of TNT (TIME, Sept. 8). The bunker did not budge.

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