Dahlenburg, Neuer Ev.- luth. Friedhof

According to the information available to us, a total of 23 dead from both world wars and the National Socialist tyranny rest in the "New Cemetery" of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Dahlenburg. Among them are 15 children of Eastern European forced laborers who died of illness, starvation and deliberate neglect in the "Foreign Children's Nursing Home" in Gienau. In detail: - A closed burial site with individual graves for seven German soldiers - killed during the final battles in the 2nd half of April 1945 - on the main road. Another grave complex with horizontal gravestones in the background of the cemetery for three foreign soldiers who died as prisoners of war: a Belgian, a Frenchman and a Soviet soldier (WW1 and WW2) - Directly behind this is a memorial stone with a plaque for the children of forced labourers who died in Gienau and were buried here. Photos: Volker Fleig 2014