Total war dead: 775
War dead 1st WW: 288
War dead 2nd WK: 487
Of which from ...
- Germany: 591
- former Soviet Union: 46
- Poland: 115
- Belgium: 9
- France: 2
- Netherlands: 3
- Italy: 1
- Others: 8
A total of 1,852 dead rest on nine war cemeteries in Paderborn.
Here, in the western cemetery, 775 victims of both world wars rest in two cemeteries
World Wars (288 from the First World War and 487 from the Second World War): Soldiers and
civilians, Germans and foreigners, men, women and children. The
War cemetery was established in 1914.
The dead of the First World War were mostly wounded soldiers who died in
Hospitals in the town. There are also 26 Russian prisoners of war resting among
them.
The cemetery of the Second World War contains 487 dead, 329 Germans and 158 foreigners (115 Poles, 20 Soviets)
Foreigners (115 Poles, 20 Soviets, 9 Belgians, 3 Dutchmen, 2 Frenchmen, 1
Italians, 1 Turk, 1 Hungarian and 6 dead of unknown nationality). They found
in the battle for Paderborn, in the hail of bombs or as prisoners of war or forced laborers
Forced laborers from the labor camps in the city area, where many of them fell victim to hunger
of hunger, disease and inhumane treatment. Representative
for all these victims at the Westfriedhof cemetery is the fateful memory
- of the young mother who died with her three young sons and the
Year girl on
17. January 1945 in Paderborn's southern part of the city
Were hit by a bomb in the southern part of Paderborn;
(Ehrenfeld, 1st row from the top, 3rd grave on the left in the middle) - to the Polish prisoner of war who died at the airfield on the same day; (Field
Died on the same day on the airfield; (Field M, grave no. 30) - to the young Dutchman who was deported to Germany shortly before the end of the war
deported to Germany to perform forced labor on the Altenbeken viaduct and died on
11. February 1945 in the Theodorschule camp; (Ehrenfeld, 5th row, grave
right in the center) - to the grandmother who died with her three daughters, two grandchildren and her brother-in-law on
Brother-in-law burned to death in a cellar on March 27, 1945; (Ehrenfeld, 10th row, 6th grave left of center).
Grave left of center) - to the young French woman who was killed by artillery fire on April 1, 1945; (Ehrenfeld
(Ehrenfeld, last row, 1st grave left of center) - to the tuberculosis-stricken mother from the Ukraine who died of pneumonia on May 4, 1945 after
pneumonia after the birth of her child. (Field M, grave no. 30)
Other war cemeteries:
- 277 dead from the Second World War have their final resting place at the East Cemetery
World War II have found their final resting place: 148 Germans and 129 foreigners
Foreigners. - The cemetery for foreigners in Schloss Neuhaus-Sennelager, in the area of the
Senne military training area, was established in 1914 for deceased foreign
Prisoners of war. Today, over 660 dead rest here; there is no exact number
does not exist. Many died in the military hospitals, which were attached to two prisoner
Prison camps during the First World War. After many of the dead had been reburied
205 remained: 172 Russians, 26 Belgians and 7 Romanians.
During the Second World War and afterwards, 130 - 140 unknown dead were
were reburied. Finally, all foreign war dead from the
Detmold were transferred here, 270 in total, mainly forced laborers and their families
Forced laborers and their families. They mostly came from Poland, but also from
Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Belgium
Ukraine, Belgium, France and even from China and India. Many
Infants were among them.
Among the dead were also foreign soldiers who had fought in units of the
Wehrmacht units. - War graves can also be found at the Schloss Neuhaus forest cemetery (114
german and unknown dead from both world wars) and the municipal cemeteries
in the districts of Elsen, Sande, Benhausen, Neuenbeken and Dahl.
Text was compiled by Dr. Antje Telgenbüscher, Paderborn City Archives.
