The Siegesallee was a broad boulevard in Berlin, Germany. In 1895, Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered and financed the expansion of an existing avenue, to be adorned with a variety of marble statues. Work was completed in 1901.
About 750m in length, it ran northwards through the Tiergarten park from Kemperplatz, to the former site of the Victory Column at the Königsplatz, close to the Reichstag. Along its length the Siegesallee cut across the Charlottenburger Chaussee.
The marble monuments and the neobaroque ensemble were ridiculed even by its contemporaries. Berlin folklore dubbed the Kaiser Denkmalwilly for his excessive historicism. Moves to have the statues demolished were thwarted after the end of the monarchy in 1919.
The Siegessäule and the figures were moved by the Nazi government to the Großer Stern in 1939 to allow for larger military parades.
Some of the monuments were lost in the aftermath of the Second World War. The allied forces had the avenue erased and the area replanted. In a symbolic act, the Soviet War Memorial was deliberately built in its path immediately after the end of the war.