Editing Tannenberg Memorial (section)

==Dismantling==
[[Image:Ruinsoftannenbergdenkmalsmall.jpg|thumb|right|1998 photo of the remains of the Tannenberg Memorial.]]
[[File:Olsztynek, kamienny lew (LoeweTannenberg).jpg|thumb|A sculpted lion, which once topped an {{convert|8|m|adj=on}} pyramid near the monument, is now displayed in [[Olsztynek]] ]]
In the spring of 1949, the [[Communist]] Polish government ordered the dismantling of the very substantial remains of the monument; removal of the ruins continued until the 1980s, by which time virtually all traces of the memorial had gone. Today, only a protruding island in an isolated field remains to mark the extensive {{convert|120|acre|km2|adj=on}} site. The Court of Honour (which measured slightly larger than a football field) has been reduced to little more than an overgrown pit of scattered debris and rubble.

Several significant remnants of the structure can still be seen elsewhere. A perfectly preserved sculpted lion, which once topped an eight-metre pyramid at another war memorial about 300 m beside the monument, is now displayed in the town square in nearby [[Olsztynek]].

After the [[Second World War]], much of the materials of the stone-and-granite memorial was used to build the Soviet war memorial in [[Olsztyn]], the [[Monument to the Ghetto Heroes]] in Warsaw, and for the new Communist Party headquarters in [[Warsaw]].<ref name="Egremont179">{{cite book|last=Egremont|first=Max|title=Forgotten Land|year=2011|publisher=Pan Macmillan|location=London|isbn=978-0-330-45659-3|page=179}}</ref>