Lager X Fullen

Meppen - Gross Fullen, Ausländischer Kriegsgräberstätte (info: Volksbund)

According to grave lists, 136 known Soviet prisoners of war and around 1,500 unknown Soviet prisoners of war and 1 unknown Albanian are buried in this cemetery.  Of the original 751 Italian military internees buried in the cemetery, most of whom died of tuberculosis, 29 were exhumed in the summer of 1955 and transferred to Italy. The remaining Italians were exhumed in April 1958; 674 were reburied in the Italian honorary cemetery in Hamburger-Öjendorf, and 48 were transferred to Italy.

This town, also known as Maczków between July 1945 and January 1948, was located in the Polish occupation zone (which was part of the British zone). This area had been liberated by the 1st Polish Armoured Division under the command of General Maczek and partly by the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade under General Sosabowski.

After the German inhabitants were resettled, the village was handed over to the Poles - in addition to the soldiers of the above-mentioned division and brigade, former Polish prisoners of war, concentration camp inmates and forced laborers also moved here. The Poles lived in the village for more than two years, during which their own and the occupation regulations applied. The deceased were buried in the local cemetery. In 1958, the remains of the deceased were reburied in the Gross-Fullen war cemetery.