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The statue of a lion, originally raised in 1862 in then Danish Flensborg to commemorate the 1850 Battle of Isted is to be restored and returned to Germany, 65 years after US forces transported the statue to Denmark from Berlin at the end of World War II.
The Isted Lion, known in German as the Flensburger Löwe, was originally raised at the Flensborg cemetery in what was then Denmark, to commemorate the battle at Isted Heath between Danish and Schleswig-Holstein forces, and the almost 5,000 men who perished or were wounded.
