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 "Court of Honor" at the cemetery chapel with the graves of 2 German soldiers of the First World War and 13 of the Second World War, 4 of them unknown, almost all of whom died on April 19/20, 1945 during the fighting on the Elbe between Bleckede and Barskamp or shortly afterwards from their wounds. - On the north side of the cemetery there are three grave sites with collective and individual graves. The central collective grave, marked by a wooden cross, three name steles and a memorial stone, contains the remains of a total of 49 victims of the Alt Garge satellite 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 laborers, women, men and children. In the right-hand section, 19 Latvians who died after the end of the war as so-called displaced persons between 1945 and 194 rest in individual graves in various locations. Photos: Birgit Putensen 2012