Kriegsgräberstätte Füchtenfeld (Lager Wietmarschen) - Füchtenfeld, Germany
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N 52° 33.626 E 007° 07.054
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Kriegsgräberstätte Füchtenfeld (Lager Wietmarschen) located at Breslauer Strasse in Füchtenfeld, Germany.
Waymark Code: WM10FAV
Location: Niedersachsen, Germany
Date Posted: 04/28/2019
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Kriegsgräberstätte Füchtenfeld a Memorial to WWII and a former graveside of POW Camp Emslandlager XIII Wietmarschen
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"In the entrance area of ??the cemetery is to read: "Here are resting about 150 dead whose names are unknown, for the most part Soviet prisoners of war. Two Serbs and two Soviet citizens are known by name, who were reburied by the Protestant-Reformed cemetery in Nordhorn in November 1967."
The Soviet soldiers who died in the Wietmarschen camp were at least buried in the cemetery in Dalum until August 1944. In January 1944 alone, prisoners of war who had come from the Stalag 326 (VI K) Senne in Wietmarschen died as a rule from tuberculosis. The actual number of those who died in that month is much higher, as indicated by the missing grave numbers in records."
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