War cemetery bomb victims Hamburg-Ohlsdorf

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“Drive over the Styx” by Gerhard Marcks inside the memorial

The war cemetery bomb victims Hamburg-Ohlsdorf is located within the Ohlsdorf cemetery , which is in the Ohlsdorf district of the city of Hamburg in Germany. The collective grave for bomb victims with a memorial is located near the eastern entrance to the cemetery ( Bramfeld, Bramfelder Chaussee ) near chapel 13. The individual bomb victim grave is located near chapel 10. It was made by the mayor in a state act in 1952 Max Brauer inaugurated. The mayor recalled that the German attacks on Guernica , Warsaw , Rotterdam and Coventry took place off Hamburg . He also points to the victims before 1943, namely the Jewish Hamburgers who were evicted and the many who were ostracized.

Operation Gomorrah

The strongest bombing of the city of Hamburg in World War II was caused by six attacks by British and US bombers from July 25 to August 3, 1943 .

Individual bomb victim grave facility

Single grave system

The individual grave field ( location ) for the victims of the bombings from 1940 to 1945 is marked by a large crown of thorns on a base. 2,282 victims rest here. The graves can be identified by name by lying stones. There is a list of victims.

Bomb victim collective grave complex

Collective grave complex

36,918 victims rest in collective graves here ( Lage ). Many corpses were brought to the Ohlsdorf cemetery by truck without being identified. Eighty prisoners from the Süderstrasse concentration camp buried the bodies. The four arms of the grave field are arranged in the shape of a cross. The names of the twenty Hamburg districts from which the victims come are listed on large oak beams on the burial grounds. There is a list of identified victims. In the center of the grave complex is a cube, inside of which the relief "Drive over the Styx" by Gerhard Marcks demonstrates the fate of the dead.

See also

Web links

Commons : Bomb victim collective grave with memorial  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Bomb victim single grave facility  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Movies

Single grave system

Collective grave complex

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg-Ohlsdorf cemetery with map ( memento of the original from September 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.friedhof-hamburg.de
  2. ↑ Commemoration of the bombing war - “There is more sharp fire from the left”. taz Nord, taz.de, July 27, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Bettina Lenner and Thomas Luerweg: Firestorm destroys Hamburg
  4. ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V., Hamburg regional association: Ohlsdorf cemetery
  5. ↑ Hamburg-Ohlsdorf Cemetery Bomb Victims Individual Graves, "Crown of Thorns"
  6. ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V., Hamburg regional association: Ohlsdorf cemetery
  7. ↑ Fallen memorials Hamburg-Ohlsdorf (cemetery bomb victims )
  8. ↑ List of names in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf cemetery (collective grave for bomb victims)
  9. ↑ The bomb victims memorial