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War Memorial Cemetery Bergkamen

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    October 24, 2021

    "... The municipal cemetery is located in the center of Bergkamen. Numerous war victims have their final resting place in the cemetery area north of Hubert-Biernat-Straße. In addition to war graves of German soldiers and civilian bomb victims, there are also graves of prisoners of war and forced laborers, whose name boards are often weathered , Leaves and moss are illegible. Around forty names of German war victims cannot be deciphered, or can only be deciphered in fragments. This list is a copy of the information that can still be recognized. Ambiguities are marked with question marks.
    A memorial cross commemorates six victims of the Kapp Putsch in 1920.
    Elsewhere, the reliefs of a former war memorial and a corresponding tablet have been reused. The reliefs show a kneeling soldier, a woman with ears of wheat and a miner. The memorial used to stand elsewhere in Bergkamen city center and was dismantled years ago. ... "


    Stone column in the place of honor
    1914-1918
    1939-1945
    They complain and warn.
    His voice shook the earth then. Take care that you do not turn away whoever was speaking.
    Children, women and men were killed by bombs in the Bergkamen community during the 1939-1945 World War.


    Plaque of a former war memorial
    1914-1918.
    The fallen sons
    the grateful Bergkamen community.
    denkmalprojekt.org/2021/bergkamen_kommunalfriedhof-bergkamen-mitte_krs-unna_wk1_1920_wk2_nrw.html

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      March 17, 2025

      Cemetery in Bergkamen-Mitte for victims of the Ruhr Army from the former municipality of Bergkamen.

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        Location: Bergkamen, Kreis Unna, Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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