Jammertal cemetery
The Jammertal Cemetery Memorial is a cemetery for almost 3,000 people who perished in Salzgitter during the National Socialist regime as a result of forced labor and inhumane accommodation and treatment .
history
In 1940 the “ Labor Education Camp Hallendorf / Camp 21 ” provided by the Reichswerke Hermann Göring was put into operation by the Gestapo . Unpopular behavior such as listening to hostile radio stations , unexcused absence from work or criticism of National Socialism without trial were punished with imprisonment of three to eight weeks.
The number of people killed here through work, torture and executions comes to around 1,000. 857 of those killed were buried near the camp in the Westernholz cemetery. When the capacity of this cemetery ran out, the new Jammertal cemetery was established near Lebenstedt in July 1943.
The victims of the satellite camp, Salzgitter-Drütte , the concentration camp Salzgitter Watenstedt and KZ Salzgitter-Bad were also buried here. The number of graves grew to 2,437 by the end of the war.
After 1950, those who were initially buried individually in various community cemeteries were reburied in the Jammertal cemetery, so that their number now increased to a total of 2970.
memorial
In 1946 the Allies erected a memorial in the center of the cemetery . This was followed in the following years by a French, a Soviet, a Jewish and a Polish memorial . In the 1970s, the redesign, which still exists today, took place, with five memorial stones listing the countries of origin of the dead in the entrance area. Individual grave designs were eliminated and replaced by uniform grave tablets.
literature
- Elke Zacharias: A place with history: "Ausländerfriedhof" Jammertal in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt , ed. v. Urban History Working Group V., Salzgitter 2006, ISBN 3926944099 .
- Sabine Bredow: “Work” - National Socialism in Salzgitter. A booklet of the Drütte Concentration Camp Memorial and Documentation Center , ed. v. Urban History Working Group V., Salzgitter 1996.
- Gerd Wysocki: work for the war. Mechanisms of rule in the armaments industry of the “Third Reich”. Labor, social policy and state police repression at the Reichswerke "Hermann Göring" in the Salzgitter area 1937/38 to 1945, Braunschweig 1992.
Web links
- Jammertal Cemetery Memorial at www.salzgitter.de
- Jammertal cemetery at www.gedenkstaette-salzgitter.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gedenkstaette-Salzgitter.de: Arbeitsserziehungslager Hallendorf - camp 21. Archived from the original on September 30, 2013 ; Retrieved April 7, 2014 .
- ^ Salzgitter.de: Memorial Cemetery Jammertal
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 26.8 ″ N , 10 ° 21 ′ 20.3 ″ E