2022/04/03
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The saddest affair ended with the death of the bride, before the wedding, but the strangeness did not stop at this scene, but the family memorialized her in a strange way at the request of the groom.
The international media called the incident “the saddest love affair of the twentieth century”, an affair that brought together a doctor
The German Karl Tanzler, and his Cuban girlfriend, Maria Elena, who ended her death as a result of being infected with “tuberculosis”, he found no choice but to immortalize her memory by mummification.
And these means say that the beginning of the meeting that brought them together dates back to April 22, 1930, in the “Key West” Hospital, where she was treated there and her condition was incurable.
Doctors confirmed that she would not live long, but he did not lose hope and expected a miracle to happen at any time, and he remained next to her until she died on October 25, 1931, at the age of 21.
Because he might not live without her, he asked her family to agree to embalming her at his own expense, and following great insistence, Maria’s father agreed.
So he extracted her body from the grave and took it to his house and waxed her skin following he filled her body with cloth and put artificial eyes in her eye holes and a wig
He fixed her bones using wires in order to re-marry her and he used to buy perfumes and gifts for her on a daily basis for 7 years.
After the matter reached the court, Karl’s statements caused grief to everyone, as he expressed his strong love for Maria and Talib
That they allow him to retrieve her body and return to his home and was released without trial, to write his story the story of the saddest love affair in history.
