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Rieseberg Murders Memorial

Rieseberg Murders Memorial

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Rieseberg Murders Memorial

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Location: Königslutter am Elm, Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Olaf

September 3, 2022

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The Rieseberg murders were a crime committed by the National Socialists shortly after they "seized power" in 1933, during which members of the SS murdered eleven men on July 4, 1933 near the small town of Rieseberg near Königslutter am Elm, about 30 km east of Braunschweig .

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April 7, 2026

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The "Pappelhof", located outside the town towards the Rieseberger Moor, became the scene of eleven (according to the memorial stone, ten) political murders by the SS on July 4, 1933, …

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