1945 - Train Collision near Assling, Germany
N 48° 00.143 E 011° 59.110
32U E 722659 N 5320877
On the 16th July 1945, a train full of German has been hit by another train. 96 soldiers died.
Waymark Code: WM2QHB
Location: Bayern, Germany
Date Posted: 12/08/2007
Views: 112
Short after WWII. A train full of former imprisoned German soldiers had to stop due to an engine failure. A fright train drove against it. 96 soldiers died.
Here is the free translation of the memorial at the collision site (see picture 2):
"At this place, 96 German soldiers died on the 16th of July 1945"
Update 25th October 2008:
About 3km further north, in the Village Oberelkofen is the burial place of these soldiers as a part of the Kriegsgräberstätte for the locals, died during WWI and WWII. The official memorial is telling us a slightly different amount of soldiers died than the memorial at the collision site itself.
Here is the free translation of the memorial at the burial site:
"In the evening of July the 16th 1945, 3000m further south, a train loaded with American tanks crashed into another train full with German prisoners of war, which was standing there because of an engine failure. At this 105 of our soldiers, driving back to the Rhenish homeland to be set free, and one American soldier died.
95 soldiers
of them are buried here
They died for us as well
To the commemoration, the Landratsamt Ebersberg, built this memorial."
You'll find this place at:
N48 01.507
E011 57.788
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