472 war dead of which 13 First and 459 Second World War Of which 469 from Germany and 3 from the Netherlands. The land where this cemetery is located was offered in 1950 by Baron Heinrich von Mallinckrodt to the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräber, Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen, for the establishment of this cemetery. The dead who rest here were brought from graves along the road and in the fields. The work was completed in 1953.

Many people died in the Niederhagen concentration camp in Wewelsburg. After a long and controversial discussion about the construction of a memorial to commemorate the victims of the concentration camp in Wewelsburg, the Paderborn district council decided on December 12, 1977 to erect a memorial for the victims of war and violence not in Wewelsburg itself, but in the Böddeken honorary cemetery. The Paderborn sculptor Josef Rikus was commissioned to design it. The five-part memorial "In memory of the victims of war and tyranny 1933-1945" made of Anröchter dolomite was ceremoniously inaugurated on November 8, 1978.

The first stone of the memorial bears the inscription "In memory of the victims of war and tyranny", while the other stones with their carved depictions are intended to specifically commemorate the "Reichskristallnacht" (the pogrom night of November 9, 1938), the "flight and expulsion", the "bombing war" and the "concentration camps".