Note: The report is based on
Xi Jinping's Germany Trip: Berlin Nixes Holocaust Memorial Request. Der Spiegel, Mar 3, 2014. www.spiegel.de/international/ger ... erlin-a-956574.html
(a) Neue Wache
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Wache
(Originally built [1816-1818] as a guardhouse for the troops of the crown prince of Prussia, the building has been used as a war memorial since 1931; After German reunification, the Neue Wache was again rededicated in 1993, as the "Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Dictatorship")
(b)
(i) wache (noun feminine): "guard"
(ii) wache as a verb is some grammatic forms of the verb wache: "1. to be awake; 2. to watch, to guard"