Thuine Kriegsgräberstätte - German War Cemetery

Thuine, war cemetery next to the forest cemetery, a total of 272 dead from both world wars and the Nazi tyranny. (info: Volksbund)

Grave fields B and D:

5 Russian and 1 Serbian prisoner of war from the First World War, died in 1916/18.

85 prisoners of war and forced laborers - women and men - from Poland and the former Yugoslavia, who died during the war years as a result of forced labor, illness and malnutrition or after their liberation at the end of the war in DP camps or hospitals. A prisoner of war hospital was set up in Thuine Monastery in 1940. The foreign dead are mainly buried in graves B and D.

Graves A and C:

124 German soldiers from various branches of the Wehrmacht and Wehrmacht entourage who died in the Thuine hospital during the war years, as well as those killed in the final battles in the Thuine area in early April 1945, who were reburied in this war cemetery in 1957. 18 of them remained unknown.

57 Polish soldiers from the 1st Polish Panzer Division, who fell in Emsland in April 1945, mostly in the battles for Dörpen and Papenburg, and were also reburied here. Some died after the end of the war during the Polish occupation period 145-1947. 6 of them remained unknown.

 

Thuine Kriegsgräberstätte Neben Waldfriedhof
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