Bergfriedhof
Hillside cemetery from the eighteen-forties, resting place of a president, scientists and poets.
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This audio guide to the Bergfriedhof in Heidelberg follows Friedrich Ebert, the hometown boy who became first president of the Weimar Republic. It reaches back to a Berlin strike in the last year of the First World War, and to the December nineteen twenty-four courtroom in Magdeburg where a journalist's insult was put on trial. Best heard on the Professors' Path between the chapel and the crematorium.
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