Bernburg/Saale, Friedhof II Parkstraße

Cemetery II in Bernburg (Saale) contains the graves of 206 victims of the First World War, 199 of whom are German and 7 of unknown nationality. They died between 6 October 1914 and 18 October 1919. Polish and Italian civilian workers, most of whom were deported to Germany for forced labor at the Solvay factories, are buried in cemeteries II and III. In June 1994, the Volksbund created a dignified overall site and also relocated the individual graves of four Russian and two Polish victims here. 299 war dead from the Second World War rest on four graves. The Soviet cemetery of honour, now Martinsplatz, is located in the immediate vicinity of Cemetery II/Parkstraße. 65 prisoners of war and civilian workers deported from the Soviet Union are buried here. They were transferred from the district, as were the remains of 60 Poles, 60 Frenchmen and around 450 members of unknown nationality. An obelisk on a pedestal with an inscription plaque on a raised area, to which a wide staircase leads, towers above the site. Source: S. Endlich and N. Goldenbogen, Gedenkstätten für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus, Band II. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1999. Ministry of the Interior and Sport of Saxony-Anhalt, Die Gräber erhalten, den Frieden bewahren. Graves for the victims of the First World War on the territory of present-day Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg 2014.