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Soviet war memorials should be preserved intact — German expert

Earlier, German papers Bild and Berliner Zeitung (BZ) urged to remove T-34 tanks from the Soviet war memorial in Berlin's Tiergarten

BERLIN, May 08. /ITAR-TASS/. One should not mingle history and politics, so the recent urges of the German papers Bild and Berliner Zeitung (BZ) to remove T-34 tanks from the Soviet war memorial in the Tiergarten district are just inappropriate, German politician, former foreign minister of the GDR, President of the German War Graves Commission Markus Meckel told ITAR-TASS on Thursday.