Kriegsgräberstätte Oberlangen - Oberlangen, Germany
Posted by: dreamhummie
N 52° 50.942 E 007° 11.623
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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
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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 (
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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.
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