Concentration camp cemetery

Memorial at the concentration camp cemetery near Schwabhausen near Landsberg

A concentration camp cemetery is its own cemetery , usually with corresponding memorial stones, on which inmates from German concentration camps are buried. These concentration camp cemeteries are very often related to the death marches that the inmates of the German concentration camps were forced to take shortly before the end of the Second World War .

In Germany there are concentration camp cemeteries mainly in southern Germany, in the states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria . In both federal states, in addition to their own concentration camp cemeteries, there are numerous concentration camp graves in other respective cemeteries and concentration camp memorials in which concentration camp victims are buried.

Concentration camp cemeteries in Baden-Württemberg

Concentration camp cemeteries in Baden-Württemberg are located in:

• Bad Friedrichshall ( Kochendorf am Reichertsberg concentration camp cemetery )
• Schörzingen concentration camp cemetery near Schömberg
• Birnau concentration camp cemetery , southeast of Überlingen
• “Concentration camp victim cemetery” between Vaihingen and Ensingen
• Heilbronn - Heilbronn-Neckargartach concentration camp cemetery (on Böllinger Strasse)
• Markgröningen - Concentration camp cemetery in Unterriexingen
• Bisingen concentration camp cemetery

Concentration camp cemeteries in Bavaria

In Bavaria there are 20 independent concentration camp cemeteries and 55 further concentration camp graves in other cemeteries or in the concentration camp memorials. All of these memorial sites have been maintained by the Bavarian Administration of State Palaces, Gardens and Lakes since 1953 . In October 2011, an extensive documentation of all Bavarian concentration camp cemeteries and memorials in Bavaria was published for the first time, which was compiled by historian Constanze Werner on behalf of the palace administration. Since 2013, responsibility for the concentration camp cemeteries has been with the Bavarian Memorials Foundation .

• Dachau Leitenberg concentration camp cemetery
• Holzhausen concentration camp cemetery
• Neunburg concentration camp cemetery in front of the forest

literature

• Constanze Werner: Concentration camp cemeteries and memorials in Bavaria , Schnell and Steiner: Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3795424831 .
• Ulrike Puvogel, Martin Stankowski: Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism, 2 volumes, Bonn 1996 (Federal Agency for Political Education, self-published, first edition 1987) online version

Web links

Commons : Concentration camp cemetery  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Constanze Werner: Concentration camp cemeteries and memorials in Bavaria, Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2011.
2. ↑ Puvogel / Stankowski: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism
3. ↑ Concentration camp cemeteries in Bavaria Homepage of the Bavarian Memorials Foundation (as of September 2015)