'Kölsche Boor", the Cologne Farmer, folk figure, by Wolfgang Wallner, 1915, Stadtmuseum, Koln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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Built to solicit collections for widows and orphans in the Great War. A donation of at least 50 pfennig entitled one to drive in a nail. The statue is now covered in nail heads. million Reichsmarks was eventually given.

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