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Entrance to Ysselsteyn German War Cemetery

Entrance to Ysselsteyn German War Cemetery

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Entrance to Ysselsteyn German War Cemetery

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Location: Venray, Limburg, Netherlands

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Dominiek Van Dooren

September 21, 2024

At the entrance of the cemetery you will find a spacious parking lot and clear signs indicating where to go for what.

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Monique

April 10, 2023

Soldiers of the Wehrmacht were buried in the cemetery, next to SS men from the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland,[9] the Sudetenland, the Baltic States, Volksdeutsche from Poland and Romania, and defected soldiers from the former Soviet Union. The Dutch also include collaborators and war criminals. One of the most notorious Dutch war criminals at the cemetery is Anton van Dijk,[10] police commissioner in Nijmegen during the war and Jew hunter, who also robbed the empty houses of deported Jews. One of the most famous SS men of Dutch origin is Willem Heubel, who was the first Dutchman to volunteer for the Waffen-SS. Heubel was a brother of Florrie Rost van Tonningen, the wife of the highly placed radical NSB leader Meinoud Rost van Tonningen. Also here lies Ernst Knorr, notorious executioner of the Sicherheitsdienst in the city of Groningen. In total, more than 500 collaborators, traitors and war criminals from the Netherlands are buried in the cemetery.[11] For some descendants of Jewish victims and resistance fighters, the presence of these graves in particular is a reason to argue against a commemoration of the dead at this cemetery. [12]

In addition to soldiers, civilians are also buried in the cemetery. Including German citizens from the Selfkant, but also citizens from the Netherlands with a German nationality who were interned in Camp Vught shortly after the liberation.

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