Bad Bevensen, Ev.- luth. Friedhof

According to the information available to us, a total of 361 dead from the Second World War and the National Socialist tyranny rest in the right-hand section of this cemetery next to the old chapel in 2 large, well-kept cemeteries and some individual graves. In detail: - 39 German soldiers from the army, air force and Waffen-SS and 1 DRK nurse from the Second World War, in a grave marked with wooden crosses. They died between 1940 and 1947 in military hospitals in Bevens, some of them in airplane crashes. 309 German civilian victims - women, men and children who died in the so-called "Hamburg Hospital", an alternative hospital of Aktion Brandt, as a result of the heavy air raids on Hamburg and other cities between 1943 and 1947 or after fleeing from the eastern territories, are buried in a very large burial ground divided by a central path next to the cemetery for the soldiers. The deceased forced labourers also rest here. The list of graves shows a total of 12 names: 6 Polish, 1 Hungarian, 1 Latvian, 1 Russian and 3 Dutch. photos: Volker Fleig 2014