Bleckede - Barskamp, Ev.- luth. Friedhof

According to the information available to us, a total of 91 dead from the World Wars and the National Socialist tyranny rest in this cemetery. In detail: - Enclosed "cemetery of honor" at the cemetery chapel with the graves of 2 German soldiers from the First World War and 13 from the Second World War, 4 of whom are unknown. On the north side of the cemetery there are three graves with collective and individual graves. The central collective grave, marked by a wooden cross, three name steles and a memorial stone, contains the mortal remains of a total of 49 victims of the Alt Garge satellite concentration camp who died between August 1944 and February 1945. Next to it is the individual grave of a Danish captain. To the left is a collective grave for 8 Eastern European forced labourers, women, men and children. 19 Latvians who died as so-called displaced persons in various places between 1945 and 194 after the end of the war rest in individual graves in the right-hand section. Photos: Birgit Putensen 2012