Kriegsgräberstätte Oberlangen - Oberlangen, Germany
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member dreamhummie
N 52° 50.942 E 007° 11.623
32U E 378362 N 5857005
Engraved tiles on the "Kriegsgräberstätte Oberlangen" located at T-junction Forsthausstraße - Rütenweg near Oberlangen, Germany.
Waymark Code: WM10FFP
Location: Niedersachsen, Germany
Date Posted: 04/29/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member unimoggers
Views: 10

On the right-hand side, from the entrance, there are 3 wooden posts on a separate section.
1 post is set on all 4 sides with tiles, the 2nd post has 1 side with tiles and the third post is still empty.
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Kriegsgräberstätte Oberlangen (visit link) a Memorial to WWII and a former graveside of POW Camp Emslandlager VI Oberlangen. (visit link)
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The deceased from 1934 to the autumn of 1939 in the prison camp Oberlangen were buried on the "camp cemetery Börgermoor" (today burial site Esterwegen).
In September 1939, the High Command of the Wehrmacht took over the camp as a prisoner of war camp. On the cemetery near the camp, according to grave lists, 62 unknown and 2 unknown as well as 2,000 to 4,000 unknown Soviet prisoners of war rest in individual graves.
Source: (visit link)
Setting of your bricks:: War Memorial

Name of Display: Den Toten einen Namen geben / Give the dead a name

Approximate number of bricks in display: +/- 62

Name on One Brick: Barbaschin, Kusma 08/10/1898 - 12/04/1943

Visit Instructions:
Please choose a name and provide a close-up of it. Maybe it's one of your relatives or someone with the same name or just the closest one you see. Your choice.
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