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Wegscheide Prisoner of War Cemetery

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Main-Kinzig-Kreis
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Wegscheide Prisoner of War Cemetery

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Wegscheide Prisoner of War Cemetery

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  • Location: Bad Orb, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Darmstadt District, Hesse, Germany

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    March 24, 2017

    Cycling

    Tomb for mainly Russian prisoners of war, who were shattered here at the crossroads to death. About 1400 are here; only 250 names are known because the camp ceased to count in the spring of 1941. Interesting: 1945 was the text: 'Murdered by the Nazi regime. After the renovation in 1956, it was then said: 'rest here far from home'. - What should you think ...
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    April 5, 2022

    Hiking

    Once you have seen this memorial, you will never forget it. In a single winter of war, 1,430 Soviet prisoners of war died here, often up to 20 in a day, after the meager rations had been cut again at the beginning of winter - disease and death as a consequence of starvation and starvation.

    It can be described as cynical that the names of more than 1000 dead are not known. In the system of the time, prisoners of war were not people, but numbers.
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    August 8, 2021

    Hiking

    It is frightening how many names of the buried Soviet prisoners of war are not known.
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    Wegscheide and Burgjosser Heiligen with a food break

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    Elevation 520 m

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    Location: Bad Orb, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Darmstadt District, Hesse, Germany

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