German War Cemetery Copenhagen West (Vestre Kirkegård)
The German War Cemetery Copenhagen West (Vestre Kirkegård) is a cemetery for 4,643 German soldiers and 5,344 refugees from World War II on Vestre Kirkegård in Copenhagen , Denmark .
location
Seen from the main entrance, the graves (tyske grave) are in the southern corner at the rear rear boundary. In the middle the graves are marked by stone crosses, in the right field by steles, in the left field the urn burials. The urn burials were adopted when refugee ships arrived daily in April 1945 and the dead could only be cremated. Among the dead are 2,296 children under the age of five who could no longer be helped.
Special graves
- Helmut Pfeiffer , German lawyer and SS officer who rescued people persecuted by the Nazi regime.
More war graves on Vestre Kirkegård
Vestre Kirkegård is also home to the graves of
- 19 British war dead from the First World War
- 7 French from WWII
See also
Web links
Commons : German war graves (Vestre Kirkegård, Copenhagen) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Copenhagen West War Cemetery In: volksbund.de , accessed on June 29, 2017.
- ^ Karsten Krogmann: Second World War Wardenburg / Cuxhaven / Copenhagen: Forgotten suffering of German children. In: nwzonline.de. April 5, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
- ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. (Ed.): Scandinavia - German war cemeteries. P. 16.
Coordinates: 55 ° 39 ′ 11.4 " N , 12 ° 31 ′ 42.5" E