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| But where did the massacre take place? In his Annals, written at the end of the first century, Tacitus gives us a vague suggestion. Years later a Roman army came into this place, reaching the outlying parts of the land of the Brukterer, and destroyed everything between the Ems and the Lippe. That would not be far from Teutoberg Forest (“haud procul Teutoburgiensi saltu”), where the remains of Varus and his Legions lay unburied. The great question, which has existed since the Roman historian and since the Humanists around 1,500 who sought their supposed German heritage, was: Where was the famous battle fought? And then in the 17th Century there arose the belief that Teutoberg Forest could be unambiguously defined, and so a forest was given the old name, the name it carries today. Since then, methods and theories have been refined, but the battlefield has not been discovered. |
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