Parnewinkel war cemetery

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The Parnewinkel war cemetery is a cemetery where prisoners of war from both world wars are buried. It is located near the Parnewinkel part of the municipality of Selsingen . The war cemetery is looked after by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge . It can be reached from the federal road 71 via a dirt road and is signposted just before Selsingen.

history

Twelve Russian and three Belgian prisoners of war from the First World War from the prison camps Parnewinkel and Haßel, who died mainly due to the poor accommodation, food and hygiene conditions, are buried at the Parnewinkel war cemetery.

With the establishment of the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag XB Sandbostel in 1939, the camp cemetery in Parnewinkel was used again for the burial of prisoners of war. 18 Serbs, 13 Poles, twelve members of the Red Army, three Belgians and one Chinese are buried in individual graves. About 40 Soviet prisoners of war were buried in a mass grave.

From 1941 a new camp cemetery was set up in Sandbostel .

After the end of World War II were on the former camp cemetery in Parnewinkel reburials made. Grave services from France, Belgium and Great Britain exhumed the bodies of prisoners of war from their respective nations and transferred them to their home countries.

As at the Sandbostel war cemetery, memorial events take place at the Parnewinkel war cemetery.

literature

  • Werner Borgsen, Klaus Volland: Stalag XB Sandbostel. On the history of a prisoner of war and concentration camp reception camp in Northern Germany 1939–1945 . Bremen, Edition Temmen , 3rd edition, 2003
  • Andreas Ehresmann (ed.): The Stalag XB Sandbostel - history and post-history of a prisoner of war camp. Hamburg / Munich, Dölling and Galitz Verlag, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Selsingen - Parnewinkel, prisoner of war cemetery. In: https://www.volksbund.de/ . Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Ehresmann: The Stalag XB Sandbostel history and post-history of a prisoner of war camp . Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich / Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86218-074-5 , pp. 44-47 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Ehresmann: The Stalag XB Sandbostel history and post-history of a prisoner of war camp . Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich / Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86218-074-5 , pp. 96 .
  4. ↑ Camp Sandbostel Memorial: Parnewinkel cemetery. In: www.stiftung-lager-sandbostel.de. Sandbostel Camp Foundation, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
  5. ^ Parnewinkel camp cemetery. In: www.stiftung-lager-sandbostel.de. Sandbostel Camp Foundation, accessed on August 11, 2020 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 23 ′ 22.8 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 29.6"  E