Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-08-01
GERMANS WON 7
LET SPIRIT Of
WARRIOR REST
MiIitarists Insist on Paying
Hono.rS to BarbaroSsa,
Known as Germany'S First
Great Fighter.
az The Assoeiated Ptess.l

Kelbra, Germany, July 81
German militarists won't let the
spirit Of Friedrich Barbarossa rest
in peace. They are worse than
the patriotic Americans who have
trundled poor old John Paul Jones
around so uncerenioniously in re-
cent years.
Hindenburg and 10000 other
soldiers who fought in both the
Franco-P russian and the recent
war journeyed to this part Of Ger
many and participated in the cele-
bration of the twenty-fifth ami
versary of the dedication of the
gigantic Kyffhaeuser memorial
erected to celebrate Germany's
victory over France and the resto-
ration of the German empire.
This location in the hills between
the Thuringian and Hartz noun
tains was selected for the memo
rial because it is here that legend
insists Friedrich Barbarossa, Ger
many's first great warrior lived on
for eight centuries and awaited the
opportunity to restore the empire
which he founded in the twelfth
century. Under his son, Fried
rich III. the empire went TO pieces,
But the red bearded monarch, so
the tradition runs, refused to ac-
cept the dissolution of the empire
as final.
Spirit of BarbarossA.
When Bismarck finally managed
to re-establish the German empire,
the spirit Of Friedrich Barbarossa
is supposed to have risen from the
cavern where he slept for GEN.
turtles and assumed the direction
OF Germany's destiny. A gigantic
statue of Friedrich Barbarossa
stands beneath the great kyff-
haeuser memorial and represents
him leading Germany on to vic
tory.
Until the defeat Of France made
Friedrich Barbarossa's resurrec-
ton possible he is supposed to have
lived In q cave beneath the emf
nence on which the great memo
rial was erected. A statue of the
old emperor within the cave rep
resents him as sleeping with his
head resting upon a marble table
through which his red beard grew.
EIltullCIl IuGbhClL anu AA'NAAy
other German poets have sung of
the red.bearded emperor who re-
fused to die but merely went to
sleep, after descending into the
enchanted cavern and taking the
glory of the empire with him.
Ravens were supposed to fly over
the hill surmounting the cavern
and when they stopped flying the
sleeping monarch was to awake
and resume leadership.
Pygmies for Companions.
Like Rip Van Wrinkle. Friedrich
Barbarossa had pygmies for his
companions and these droll folk
were supposed to keep continually
on the watch that they might
arouse the sleeping emperor when
the ravens gave the signal for him
to arise.
Military events in 1918 again
upset the dream of Friedrich Bar
barossa and disturbed the peace
of wilhelm ii. The perfected
legend as typified in the great me-
mortal pile and the resurrected
spirit of Barbarossa Is again turn
ed back to the thirteenth century.
The ravens still fly about the hill
where Hindenburg and his COM
rades-in- arms gathered to do
honor to the regime which has
given way before democratic
forces.
Barbarossa's statue still remains
in the enchanted cavern and per-
haps future poes will extend the
legend. or alter 1t so as to have
the restless spirit of Wilhelm l
await the opportunity to revive the
empire which went to pieces under
his grandson.