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Reifferscheid Soldiers' Cemetery

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Hellenthal

Reifferscheid Soldiers' Cemetery

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Reifferscheid Soldiers' Cemetery

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Location: Hellenthal, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Silke mit Yuna & Yomi

November 8, 2018

On this hilltop opposite the castle Reifferscheid the cemetery was created. 1,163 war dead of the Second World War found their last rest here. They are German and Austrian soldiers who fell in the winter of 1944-45 during the bitter fighting on the so-called Westwall and in the "Ardennes offensive". Between them civilian citizens also found their graves, which lost their lives through grenade bombardment and air raids, and the men who died after the war as minesweepers.
Many of the fallen soldiers were only able to give hastily prepared tombs during the almost constant battles; many killed received a common grave. Often there was not even time to mark the graves with the names. Thus, in spite of all efforts to identify, 269 of those killed in the present cemetery remained nameless.
SOURCE: volksbund.de/kriegsgraeberstaette/hellenthal-reifferscheid-kriegsgraeberstaette-oberreifferscheid.html

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JakobusPilger

June 2, 2021

As a memorial to the endless number of war dead, such places - usually referred to as "war cemeteries" or "soldiers' cemeteries" - are still very important today. "Now, Lord, let your servant go in peace, as you said." However, the many people buried here were by no means divorced in peace, but became victims of the war and an inhuman tyranny.
The most important and at the same time everlasting function of the soldiers' or honorary cemeteries or war cemeteries is therefore to keep the memory of this suffering alive and – every generation anew (!) – to remind people of the lasting preservation of peace.

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SantiagoFreundeKöln

October 8, 2021

The best 'honor' for the soldiers buried here (and the many other victims of war and tyranny) would be to avoid violent conflicts in the future and to strive for peaceful coexistence between the different peoples.

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Location: Hellenthal, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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