WW II Bombing Victims - Potsdam, Germany
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Bernd das Brot Team
N 52° 23.043 E 013° 04.154
33U E 368595 N 5805508
Burial ground for unknown victims of the bombing of Potsdam at the end of World War II
Waymark Code: WM10PQQ
Location: Brandenburg, Germany
Date Posted: 06/07/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member QuesterMark
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On April 14, 1945 at 10.16 PM, British bombers dropped 1,700 tons of bombs on the center of the old Prussian capital Potsdam. 500 people died that night, many of them burned so badly that they cold not be identified.

All bombing victims were laid to rest in small groups in individual graves on a field belonging to Potsdam's New Cemetery (picture above). For identified victims, the names were put on the headstone, but most headstones only bear an engraving like the one in the picture left:

UNKNOWN WAR VICTIMS:
- ONE UNKNOWN CHILD
- ONE UNKNOWN PERSON
- ONE UNKNOWN PERSON

To the north of the grave site, there is a small concrete monument, depicting the flames engulfing the town an bearing the inscription:

DEN OPFERN DES BOMBENANGRIFFES AUF POTSDAM VOM 14. APRIL 1945
TO THE VICTIMS OF THE BOMBING OF POTSDAM AT APRIL 14, 1945

Burial Location: Potsdam, Germany, Neuer Friedhof

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