{"id":2403,"date":"2021-11-11T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2021-11-11T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:45:47","slug":"the-remembrance-day-poppy-a-transcontinental-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/2021\/11\/11\/the-remembrance-day-poppy-a-transcontinental-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Remembrance Day Poppy &#8211; A Transcontinental Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">[bilingual post \u2013 German version see below]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It's early November, and everyone who follows events in the UK has noticed: People are wearing poppies again.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I assume that most of my readers might have noticed it when they saw the news about the G20 or COP26. The British politicians and members of the royal household wore those small red flowers on their jackets. Likewise, attentive viewers of the G20 might have noticed Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, wearing a similar flower, one that remained on his suit jacket for COP26 as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While the design differs a little, they are following the same, more than a hundred-year-old tradition - one of the earliest traditions of the Commonwealth.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_3_5 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_1  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Remembrance Poppy traveled a long way in a remarkably brief time. The earliest associations between poppies and war arose in Napoleonic times for the same reasons they got associated during the First World War. Poppies are tough plants, one of the few who can survive on a battlefield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In December 1915, Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae's poem \"In Flanders Fields\" was first published. After the war, an American professor named Moina Belle Michael published a poem in response to In Flanders Fields, entitled \"We Shall Keep the Faith.\"<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After reading In Flanders Fields, she vowed to wear a silk poppy to remember the fallen soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>After she returned to the United States, Professor Michael taught disabled soldiers. In order to raise money for the help they needed, she started to sell silk remembrance poppies.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Madame Gu\u00e9rin, a French teacher, is recognized as the initiator of the Poppy Day and the wide-scale selling of poppies to help the families of fallen soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">She addressed the American Legion in 1920, proposing an Inter-Allied Poppy Day for all allied countries of the Great War on November 11, the day the armistice took effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 1921, the idea came to the attention of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, a co-founder of the British Legion. He promoted the cause and was in full support of the idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Shortly afterward, the poppies spread fast through the entire British Empire and the Commonwealth.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_2_5 et_pb_column et_pb_column_2  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_testimonial et_pb_testimonial_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode clearfix  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light et_block_module et_pb_testimonial_no_image\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/files\/JohnMcCrae.jpg)\" class=\"et_pb_testimonial_portrait\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_testimonial_description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_testimonial_description_inner\"><div class=\"et_pb_testimonial_content\"><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Between the crosses, row on row,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">That mark our place; and in the sky<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">he larks, still bravely singing, fly<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Scarce heard amid the guns below.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We are the dead. Short days ago<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Loved and were loved, and now we lie,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Flanders fields.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Take up our quarrel with the foe:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">To you from failing hands we throw<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The torch; be yours to hold it high.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If ye break faith with us who die<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We shall not sleep, though poppies grow<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Flanders fields.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_testimonial_author\">Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"et_pb_testimonial_meta\"><span class=\"et_pb_testimonial_position\">Canadian poet, doctor and soldier<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_2  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_3  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_2  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Today, it is a cultural institution in the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. Ironically, France adopted a different flower to remember the fallen; the cornflower, the Bleuet de France. Nevertheless, it serves the same purposes in France and is distributed on Remembrance Day and Victory in Europe Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Australia and New Zealand, poppies are worn around ANZAC Day, April 25. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The day remembers April 25, 1915, when Australian and New Zealand troops arrived at Gallipoli and met fierce resistance from the Ottoman Army. The Australias and New Zealanders took heavy casualties during this campaign, which failed its objective to \"capture Constantinople and take the Ottomans out of the war early.\"<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Instead, while praising the heroism of the ANZAC, the high casualty numbers shocked both nations at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The First World War was praised as the \"war to end all wars,\" today, we know this \"perception\" was wrong. Nevertheless, its legacy lasts to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Every year in early November, poppies are distributed and worn to raise money for charities that support war victims, widows, and orphans. Also, every year on the Sunday closest to November 11, at 11 o'clock, London falls silent for two minutes to remember those fallen during both world wars and all conflicts that followed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The poppies also changed with time; there is a white poppy to remember the civilians and nurses who died, and a purple poppy, remembering the animals who died during the war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Every year, in late April, New Zealand and Australia mourn their fallen soldiers from their first war as dominions and all those who died after the Great War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A war that changed the world forever and is so often overshadowed by the even more countless loss of life and the even crueler atrocities committed during the Second World War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Whenever I return from the UK to Germany in November, I am surprised at the missing presence of the First World War in Germany. The end of the Second World War always sees some official recognition. Sometimes, I feel that Germany likes to forget about the First World War altogether.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We should not forget about the First World War; even though its successor so often overshadows it, it was a mindless bloodbath too. An entire generation of young men wasted to war and disease in trenches, which only moved at the sacrifice of thousands of lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The mindless violence of the First World War also planted the seeds of a political culture that allowed fascists to rise with relative ease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So when you happen to look at a clock on November 11, and by chance, it strikes 11 o'clock, remember the fields of battle in Flanders. Remember all those soldiers, doctors, nurses. Remember all those civilians and animals who gave their lives in that war. A war that today all too often passes by as a historical footnote of the Second World War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If you don't, then maybe you might be inclined to follow the official ceremony in Whitehall on Sunday, when the Queen marks Remembrance Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the interest of peace, we should join them all in remembering. Maybe by remembering those who gave their lives in conflict since 1914, we can finally stop glorifying and justifying war.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_3  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_testimonial et_pb_testimonial_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode clearfix  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light et_block_module et_pb_testimonial_no_image\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/files\/Laurence-Binyon.jpg)\" class=\"et_pb_testimonial_portrait\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_testimonial_description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_testimonial_description_inner\"><div class=\"et_pb_testimonial_content\"><p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;<\/em><br \/><em>Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<\/em><br \/><em>At the going down of the sun and in the morning<\/em><br \/><em>We will remember them.<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_testimonial_author\">Laurence Binyon<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"et_pb_testimonial_meta\"><span class=\"et_pb_testimonial_position\">British poet<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_4  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_5  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_3  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Wir befinden uns im fr\u00fchen November und alle, die die Geschehnisse im Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich verfolgen haben es bemerkt: Die Leute tragen wieder Mohnblumen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ich gehe davon aus, dass die meisten, die Mohnblumen bemerkt haben als sie die Berichterstattung \u00fcber die G20 und COP26 verfolgten. Britische Politiker und Mitglieder des K\u00f6nigshauses trugen die roten Blumen an ihren Jacketts. Aufmerksame Beobachter haben vielleicht auch bemerkt, dass Justin Trudeau, der kanadische Premierminister, ebenfalls eine \u00e4hnliche Mohnblume auf dem G20 Gipfel trug und dies auch bei COP26 fortgesetzt hat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Auch wenn die einzelnen Designs sich leicht unterscheiden, so gehen sie auf die selbe \u00fcber 100 Jahre alte Tradition zur\u00fcck, eine der ersten Traditionen des Commonwealth.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_5  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_3_5 et_pb_column et_pb_column_6  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_4  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Die Mohnblume nahm ihre lange Reise bis zum etablierten Ged\u00e4chtnisort in einer sehr kurzen Zeit zur\u00fcck. Die erste Assoziation zwischen Krieg und der Mohnblume stammt aus napoleonischen Zeiten und aus dem selben Grund, warum der Erste Weltkrieg diese Assoziation verfestigte. Mohnblumen sind sehr z\u00e4he Pflanzen und k\u00f6nnen so auf Schlachtfeldern \u00fcberleben.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Im Dezember des Jahres 1915 wurde das Gedicht \u201eIn Flanders Fields\u201c von Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae ver\u00f6ffentlicht. Nach dem Krieg schreib die amerikanische Professorin \"We Shall Keep the Faith\u201c als Reaktion auf McCraes Gedicht. Nachdem sie \u201eIn Flanders Fields\u201c gelesen hat, gelobte sie fortan immerzu eine Mohnblume zu tragen und trug fortw\u00e4hrend eine Mohnblume aus Seide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Nachdem sie wieder in den Vereinigten Staaten eingetroffen war, unterrichtete sie eine Klasse von Soldaten, die mit schweren Behinderungen aus dem Krieg zur\u00fcckkehrten. Um den Soldaten ihre ben\u00f6tigte Hilfe zu erm\u00f6glichen sammelte sie Geld indem sie Mohnblumen aus Seide verkaufte.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Heute wird Madame Gu\u00e9rin, eine franz\u00f6sische Lehrerin, als die Hauptinitiatorin des \u201eMohnblumentages\u201c und des breit aufgestellten Verkaufs von k\u00fcnstlichen Mohnblumen um Spenden f\u00fcr die Familien von gefallenen Soldaten zu sammeln.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">In einer Rede vor der American Legion schlug sie einen \u201eInterallierten Mohnblumentag\u201c f\u00fcr alle alliierten Staaten aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg vor, dieser sollte am 11. November stattfinden, den Tag des Waffenstillstands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">1921 wurde Field Marshal Douglas Haig, Mitbegr\u00fcnder der Royal British Legion auf die Idee aufmerksam. Er unterst\u00fctze und f\u00f6rderte das Konzept. Kurz danach verbreiteten sich die Mohnblumen im British Empire und im Commonwealth.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_2_5 et_pb_column et_pb_column_7  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_testimonial et_pb_testimonial_2  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode clearfix  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light et_block_module et_pb_testimonial_no_image\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/files\/JohnMcCrae.jpg)\" class=\"et_pb_testimonial_portrait\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_testimonial_description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_testimonial_description_inner\"><div class=\"et_pb_testimonial_content\"><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Between the crosses, row on row,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">That mark our place; and in the sky<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">he larks, still bravely singing, fly<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Scarce heard amid the guns below.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We are the dead. Short days ago<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Loved and were loved, and now we lie,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Flanders fields.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Take up our quarrel with the foe:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">To you from failing hands we throw<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The torch; be yours to hold it high.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If ye break faith with us who die<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We shall not sleep, though poppies grow<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Flanders fields.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_testimonial_author\">Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"et_pb_testimonial_meta\"><span class=\"et_pb_testimonial_position\">kanadischer Poet, Arzt und Soldat<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_6  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_8  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_5  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Heute ist die Mohnblume im Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich, Kanada, Neuseeland und Australien eine feste kulturelle Institution. Ironischerweise hat Frankreich eine andere Blume f\u00fcr sich angenommen, die Kornblume, die Bleuet de France. Sie erf\u00fcllt jedoch die selbe Funktion und wird am Tag des Waffenstillstands und am 08. Mai, im Gedenken an das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Europa getragen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">In Australien und Neuseeland wird die Mohnblume zum ANZAC Day am 25. April getragen. ANZAC steht f\u00fcr Australian and New Zealandic Army Corps. Der Tag erinnert an den 25. April 1915, als neuseel\u00e4ndische und australische Truppen in Gallipoli gelandet sind und auf starken Widerstand der Osmanen getroffen sind. Die Australier und Neuseel\u00e4nder mussten schwere Verluste hinnehmen w\u00e4hrend der gescheiterten Kampagne, deren Ziel es war \u201eKonstantinopel einzunehmen und die Osmanen damit fr\u00fch zur Kapitulation zu bringen\u201c.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Beide Nationen r\u00fchmten den Mut ihrer Soldaten, aber waren schockiert als die Verlustzahlen bekannt geworden sind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Der Erste Weltkrieg galt als der \u201eKrieg, um alle Kriege zu beenden\u201c, heute wissen wir, dass diese Annahme falsch war. Nichtsdestotrotz h\u00e4lt sein Verm\u00e4chtnis bis heute an.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Jedes Jahr im fr\u00fchen November werden Mohnblumen ausgeteilt und getragen, um Spenden f\u00fcr Wohlfahrtorganisationen zu sammeln, die Veteranen, Familien von Gefallenen, Verwitweten und Waisen helfen. Ebenfalls wird an jedem Sonntag, der dem 11. November, h\u00fcllt sich London um 11 Uhr in respektvolles Schweigen um den Gefallenen des Ersten Weltkrieges zu gedenken. Mit der Zeit wird auch allen Gefallenen aller folgenden Kriege gedacht.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Das Symbol der Mohnblume erweiterte sich ebenfalls mit der Zeit, so gibt es eine wei\u00dfe Mohnblume um den Zivilisten und medizinischen Personal zu gedenken und auch eine lilafarbene Mohnblume, um den Tieren zu gedenken, die im Ersten Weltkrieg starben.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Ebenfalls j\u00e4hrlich wird Ende April in Neuseeland und Australien den gefallenen Soldaten aus dem ersten Krieg gedacht, den beide Nationen als junge Dominions bestritten haben und auch aller Kriege danach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Ein Krieg, der die Welt ver\u00e4ndert hat und oft vom Zweiten Weltkrieg \u00fcberschattet wird, der noch viel mehr Leben kostete und von noch viel grausamere Gr\u00e4ueltaten gezeichnet ist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Immer wenn ich im November aus dem UK nach Deutschland zur\u00fcckkehre fehlt mir das Gedenken an den Ersten Weltkrieg. Der Zweite Weltkrieg findet immer eine Form der formalen Anerkennung. Manchmal f\u00fchlt es sich so an, dass Deutschland den Ersten Weltkrieg vergessen will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Wir sollten den Ersten Weltkrieg nicht vergessen, auch wenn sein Nachfolger ihn so oft \u00fcberschattet. Er war genauso ein unn\u00f6tiges Blutbad. Eine ganze Generation junger M\u00e4nner wurde an diesem Krieg verschwendet, sie starben im Kampf und an Krankheiten in diesen Gr\u00e4ben, die sich nur bewegten, wenn weitere tausende Leben dem Krieg geopfert wurde.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Eine weitere Folge der sinnlosen Gewalt im Ersten Weltkrieg ist die politische Kultur, die aus ihm hervor ging und den faschistischen Bewegungen ihren Aufstieg erleichterte.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Sollte der Blick der Leserschaft an diesem 11. November auf eine Uhr fallen, die zuf\u00e4llig gerade 11 Uhr anzeigt, dann w\u00e4re es vielleicht angebracht an die Schlachtfelder in Flandern zu denken. An die Soldaten, \u00c4rzte, Schwestern, Zivilisten und Tiere zu denken, die in diesem Krieg gestorben sind. Ein Krieg, der leider zu oft nur als Fu\u00dfnote des Zweiten Weltkriegs gesehen wird.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Falls dieser Moment der Leserschaft entgeht, sollte sie sich vielleicht am Sonntag den offiziellen Gedenkakt in Whitehall, London am Sonntag ansehen, an dem die Queen teilnehmen wird.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\">Im Interesse des Friedens, sollten alle daran teilnehmen. Vielleicht f\u00fchrt uns das Erinnern an jene die seit 1914 ihr Leben in Konflikten gaben dazu, Krieg nicht mehr l\u00e4nger zu glorifizieren und Begr\u00fcndungen f\u00fcr Krieg zu finden.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_7  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_9  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_testimonial et_pb_testimonial_3  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode clearfix  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light et_block_module et_pb_testimonial_no_image\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/files\/Laurence-Binyon.jpg)\" class=\"et_pb_testimonial_portrait\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_testimonial_description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_testimonial_description_inner\"><div class=\"et_pb_testimonial_content\"><p><em>They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;<\/em><br \/><em>Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<\/em><br \/><em>At the going down of the sun and in the morning<\/em><br \/><em>We will remember them.<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_testimonial_author\">Laurence Binyon<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"et_pb_testimonial_meta\"><span class=\"et_pb_testimonial_position\">britischer Poet<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12830,"featured_media":2441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Remembrance Day Poppy - A Transcontinental Story<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It's early November, and everyone who follows events in the UK has noticed: People are wearing poppies again.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I assume that most of my readers might have noticed it when they saw the news about the G20 or COP26. The British politicians and members of the royal household wore those small red flowers on their jackets. Likewise, attentive viewers of the G20 might have noticed Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, wearing a similar flower, one that remained on his suit jacket for COP26 as well.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While the design differs a little, they are following the same, more than a hundred-year-old tradition - one of the earliest traditions of the Commonwealth.<\/span><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Between the crosses, row on row,<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0That mark our place; and in the sky<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The larks, still bravely singing, fly<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Scarce heard amid the guns below.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0We are the dead. Short days ago<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Loved and were loved, and now we lie,<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0In Flanders fields.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Take up our quarrel with the foe:<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0To you from failing hands we throw<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The torch; be yours to hold it high.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If ye break faith with us who die<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0We shall not sleep, though poppies grow<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0In Flanders fields.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Remembrance Poppy traveled a long way in a remarkably brief time. The earliest associations between poppies and war arose in Napoleonic times for the same reasons they got associated during the First World War. Poppies are tough plants, one of the few who can survive on a battlefield.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In December 1915, Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae's poem \"In Flanders Fields\" was first published. After the war, an American professor named Moina Belle Michael published a poem in response to In Flanders Fields, entitled \"We Shall Keep the Faith.\"<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After reading In Flanders Fields, she vowed to wear a silk poppy to remember the fallen soldiers.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After she returned to the United States, Professor Michael taught disabled soldiers. In order to raise money for the help they needed, she started to sell silk remembrance poppies.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Madame Gu\u00e9rin, a French teacher, is recognized as the initiator of the Poppy Day and the wide-scale selling of poppies to help the families of fallen soldiers.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">She addressed the American Legion in 1920, proposing an Inter-Allied Poppy Day for all allied countries of the Great War on November 11, the day the armistice took effect.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 1921, the idea came to the attention of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, a co-founder of the British Legion. He promoted the cause and was in full support of the idea.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Shortly afterward, the poppies spread fast through the entire British Empire and the Commonwealth.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Today, it is a cultural institution in the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. Ironically, France adopted a different flower to remember the fallen; the cornflower, the Bleuet de France. Nevertheless, it serves the same purposes in France and is distributed on Remembrance Day and Victory in Europe Day.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Australia and New Zealand, poppies are worn around ANZAC Day, April 25. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The day remembers April 25, 1915, when Australian and New Zealand troops arrived at Gallipoli and met fierce resistance from the Ottoman Army. The Australias and New Zealanders took heavy casualties during this campaign, which failed its objective to \"capture Constantinople and take the Ottomans out of the war early.\"<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Instead, while praising the heroism of the ANZAC, the high casualty numbers shocked both nations at the same time.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The First World War was praised as the \"war to end all wars,\" today, we know this \"perception\" was wrong. Nevertheless, its legacy lasts to this day.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Every year in early November, poppies are distributed and worn to raise money for charities that support war victims, widows, and orphans. Also, every year on the Sunday closest to November 11, at 11 o'clock, London falls silent for two minutes to remember those fallen during both world wars and all conflicts that followed.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The poppies also changed with time; there is a white poppy to remember the civilians and nurses who died, and a purple poppy, remembering the animals who died during the war.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Every year, in late April, New Zealand and Australia mourn their fallen soldiers from their first war as dominions and all those who died after the Great War.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A war that changed the world forever and is so often overshadowed by the even more countless loss of life and the even crueler atrocities committed during the Second World War.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Whenever I return from the UK to Germany in November, I am surprised at the missing presence of the First World War in Germany. The end of the Second World War always sees some official recognition. Sometimes, I feel that Germany likes to forget about the First World War altogether.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We should not forget about the First World War; even though its successor so often overshadows it, it was a mindless bloodbath too. An entire generation of young men wasted to war and disease in trenches, which only moved at the sacrifice of thousands of lives.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The mindless violence of the First World War also planted the seeds of a political culture that allowed fascists to rise with relative ease.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So when you happen to look at a clock on November 11, and by chance, it strikes 11 o'clock, remember the fields of battle in Flanders. Remember all those soldiers, doctors, nurses. Remember all those civilians and animals who gave their lives in that war. A war that today all too often passes by as a historical footnote of the Second World War.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If you don't, then maybe you might be inclined to follow the official ceremony in Whitehall on Sunday, when the Queen marks Remembrance Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the interest of peace, we should join them all in remembering. Maybe by remembering those who gave their lives in conflict since 1914, we can finally stop glorifying and justifying war.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">At the going down of the sun and in the morning<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We will remember them.\"<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\">Wir befinden uns im fr\u00fchen November und alle, die die Geschehnisse im Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich verfolgen haben es bemerkt: Die Leute tragen wieder Mohnblumen.<br \/><br \/>Ich gehe davon aus, dass die meisten, die Mohnblumen bemerkt haben als sie die Berichterstattung \u00fcber die G20 und COP26 verfolgten. Britische Politiker und Mitglieder des K\u00f6nigshauses trugen die roten Blumen an ihren Jacketts. Aufmerksame Beobachter haben vielleicht auch bemerkt, dass Justin <span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Trudeau, der kanadische Premierminister, ebenfalls eine \u00e4hnliche Mohnblume auf dem G20 Gipfel trug und dies auch bei COP26 fortgesetzt hat.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Auch wenn die einzelnen Designs sich leicht unterscheiden, so gehen sie auf die selbe \u00fcber 100 Jahre alte Tradition zur\u00fcck, eine der ersten Traditionen des Commonwealth.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Die Mohnblume nahm ihre lange Reise bis zum etablierten Ged\u00e4chtnisort in einer sehr kurzen Zeit zur\u00fcck. Die erste Assoziation zwischen Krieg und der Mohnblume stammt aus napoleonischen Zeiten und aus dem selben Grund, warum der Erste Weltkrieg diese Assoziation verfestigte. Mohnblumen sind sehr z\u00e4he Pflanzen und k\u00f6nnen so auf Schlachtfeldern \u00fcberleben.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\">\u00a0<\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Between the crosses, row on row,<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0That mark our place; and in the sky<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The larks, still bravely singing, fly<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Scarce heard amid the guns below.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0We are the dead. Short days ago<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Loved and were loved, and now we lie,<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0In Flanders fields.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Take up our quarrel with the foe:<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0To you from failing hands we throw<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The torch; be yours to hold it high.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If ye break faith with us who die<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0We shall not sleep, though poppies grow<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0In Flanders fields.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Im Dezember des Jahres 1915 wurde das Gedicht \u201eIn Flanders Fields\u201c von Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae ver\u00f6ffentlicht. Nach dem Krieg schreib die amerikanische Professorin \"We Shall Keep the Faith\u201c als Reaktion auf McCraes Gedicht. Nachdem sie \u201eIn Flanders Fields\u201c gelesen hat, gelobte sie fortan immerzu eine Mohnblume zu tragen und trug fortw\u00e4hrend eine Mohnblume aus Seide.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Nachdem sie wieder in den Vereinigten Staaten eingetroffen war, unterrichtete sie eine Klasse von Soldaten, die mit schweren Behinderungen aus dem Krieg zur\u00fcckkehrten. Um den Soldaten ihre ben\u00f6tigte Hilfe zu erm\u00f6glichen sammelte sie Geld indem sie Mohnblumen aus Seide verkaufte.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Heute wird Madame Gu\u00e9rin, eine franz\u00f6sische Lehrerin, als die Hauptinitiatorin des \u201eMohnblumentages\u201c und des breit aufgestellten Verkaufs von k\u00fcnstlichen Mohnblumen um Spenden f\u00fcr die Familien von gefallenen Soldaten zu sammeln.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">In einer Rede vor der American Legion schlug sie einen \u201eInterallierten Mohnblumentag\u201c f\u00fcr alle alliierten Staaten aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg vor, dieser sollte am 11. November stattfinden, den Tag des Waffenstillstands.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">1921 wurde Field Marshal Douglas Haig, Mitbegr\u00fcnder der Royal British Legion auf die Idee aufmerksam. Er unterst\u00fctze und f\u00f6rderte das Konzept. Kurz danach verbreiteten sich die Mohnblumen im British Empire und im Commonwealth.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Heute ist die Mohnblume im Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich, Kanada, Neuseeland und Australien eine feste kulturelle Institution. Ironischerweise hat Frankreich eine andere Blume f\u00fcr sich angenommen, die Kornblume, die Bleuet de France. Sie erf\u00fcllt jedoch die selbe Funktion und wird am Tag des Waffenstillstands und am 08. Mai, im Gedenken an das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Europa getragen.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">In Australien und Neuseeland wird die Mohnblume zum ANZAC Day am 25. April getragen. ANZAC steht f\u00fcr Australian and New Zealandic Army Corps. Der Tag erinnert an den 25. April 1915, als neuseel\u00e4ndische und australische Truppen in Gallipoli gelandet sind und auf starken Widerstand der Osmanen getroffen sind. Die Australier und Neuseel\u00e4nder mussten schwere Verluste hinnehmen w\u00e4hrend der gescheiterten Kampagne, deren Ziel es war \u201eKonstantinopel einzunehmen und die Osmanen damit fr\u00fch zur Kapitulation zu bringen\u201c.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Beide Nationen r\u00fchmten den Mut ihrer Soldaten, aber waren schockiert als die Verlustzahlen bekannt geworden sind.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Der Erste Weltkrieg galt als der \u201eKrieg, um alle Kriege zu beenden\u201c, heute wissen wir, dass diese Annahme falsch war. Nichtsdestotrotz h\u00e4lt sein Verm\u00e4chtnis bis heute an.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Jedes Jahr im fr\u00fchen November werden Mohnblumen ausgeteilt und getragen, um Spenden f\u00fcr Wohlfahrtorganisationen zu sammeln, die Veteranen, Familien von Gefallenen, Verwitweten und Waisen helfen. Ebenfalls wird an jedem Sonntag, der dem 11. November, h\u00fcllt sich London um 11 Uhr in respektvolles Schweigen um den Gefallenen des Ersten Weltkrieges zu gedenken. Mit der Zeit wird auch allen Gefallenen aller folgenden Kriege gedacht.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Das Symbol der Mohnblume erweiterte sich ebenfalls mit der Zeit, so gibt es eine wei\u00dfe Mohnblume um den Zivilisten und medizinischen Personal zu gedenken und auch eine lilafarbene Mohnblume, um den Tieren zu gedenken, die im Ersten Weltkrieg starben.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Ebenfalls j\u00e4hrlich wird Ende April in Neuseeland und Australien den gefallenen Soldaten aus dem ersten Krieg gedacht, den beide Nationen als junge Dominions bestritten haben und auch aller Kriege danach.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Ein Krieg, der die Welt ver\u00e4ndert hat und oft vom Zweiten Weltkrieg \u00fcberschattet wird, der noch viel mehr Leben kostete und von noch viel grausamere Gr\u00e4ueltaten gezeichnet ist.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Immer wenn ich im November aus dem UK nach Deutschland zur\u00fcckkehre fehlt mir das Gedenken an den Ersten Weltkrieg. Der Zweite Weltkrieg findet immer eine Form der formalen Anerkennung. Manchmal f\u00fchlt es sich so an, dass Deutschland den Ersten Weltkrieg vergessen will.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Wir sollten den Ersten Weltkrieg nicht vergessen, auch wenn sein Nachfolger ihn so oft \u00fcberschattet. Er war genauso ein unn\u00f6tiges Blutbad. Eine ganze Generation junger M\u00e4nner wurde an diesem Krieg verschwendet, sie starben im Kampf und an Krankheiten in diesen Gr\u00e4ben, die sich nur bewegten, wenn weitere tausende Leben dem Krieg geopfert wurde.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Eine weitere Folge der sinnlosen Gewalt im Ersten Weltkrieg ist die politische Kultur, die aus ihm hervor ging und den faschistischen Bewegungen ihren Aufstieg erleichterte.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Sollte der Blick der Leserschaft an diesem 11. November auf eine Uhr fallen, die zuf\u00e4llig gerade 11 Uhr anzeigt, dann w\u00e4re es vielleicht angebracht an die Schlachtfelder in Flandern zu denken. An die Soldaten, \u00c4rzte, Schwestern, Zivilisten und Tiere zu denken, die in diesem Krieg gestorben sind. Ein Krieg, der leider zu oft nur als Fu\u00dfnote des Zweiten Weltkriegs gesehen wird.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Falls dieser Moment der Leserschaft entgeht, sollte sie sich vielleicht am Sonntag den offiziellen Gedenkakt in Whitehall, London am Sonntag ansehen, an dem die Queen teilnehmen wird.<\/span><\/p><p lang=\"de-DE\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">Im Interesse des Friedens, sollten alle daran teilnehmen. Vielleicht f\u00fchrt uns das Erinnern an jene die seit 1914 ihr Leben in Konflikten gaben dazu, Krieg nicht mehr l\u00e4nger zu glorifizieren und Begr\u00fcndungen f\u00fcr Krieg zu finden.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">At the going down of the sun and in the morning<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We will remember them.\"<\/span><\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[207,547280,849391,58,849398,849378,547623],"tags":[849529,52049,52087,849536,849542,849543,388467,849524,849525,849380,704049,565260,849526,67922,849537,849538,849440,570554,21087,849541,357628,52059,13831,572069,849530,849381,849534,67933,255,368917,849535,849523,849384,849383],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","category-debatte-europa","category-ies-erklaert-europa","category-literatur","category-marcel-eichler","category-uk","category-unterwegs","tag-australia","tag-australien","tag-belgien","tag-belgium","tag-britische-monarchie","tag-british-monarchy","tag-canada","tag-commonwealth","tag-commonwealth-of-nations","tag-england","tag-erinnerung","tag-erinnerungskultur","tag-erster-weltkrieg","tag-europa","tag-flandern","tag-flanders","tag-gedaechtnisort","tag-gedichte","tag-geschichte","tag-great-britain","tag-grossbritannien","tag-kanada","tag-kultur","tag-neuseeland","tag-new-zealand","tag-nordirland","tag-northern-ireland","tag-poetry","tag-politik","tag-schottland","tag-scotland","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/europablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}