Karlshagen memorial and memorial
The memorial Karl Hagen is one of the street in front of the local situation of the Baltic resort Karl Hagen in Trassenheide on the island of Usedom in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern located memorial . It is located about 200 meters from the entrance to Karlshagen and was built in memory of the victims of World War II from both places and the fate of the concentration camp prisoners who were interned in Peenemünde in the Karlshagen I and Karlshagen II labor camps . In these sub-camps of the Ravensbrück concentration camp , prisoners who wereForced labor in the Peenemünde Army Research Center were used.
layout
The memorial and memorial complex is enclosed on three sides by forest and consists of a rectangular square paved with stones, on the rear side of which there is a three-part mosaic wall designed in 1969 by the Usedom artist Klaus Rößler . On the right side there is a stone tablet with the inscription "The victims of World War II from Karlshagen and Trassenheide" embedded in the ground.
For 56 victims who were found in a mass grave with head-shot wounds, there is a plaque surrounded by seven stone crosses on the left side of the complex with the inscription, based on a quote from Bertolt Brecht , “So you have disappeared, but not forgotten; bludgeoned but not refuted; Together with all those who cannot improve; 56 victims of fascism rest here ”.
There is also a war victims' cemetery to the left. Around 700 named victims of bombing attacks on August 17 and 18, 1943, the so-called Operation Hydra , and July 18, 1944, including soldiers , civilians and prisoners of war, are buried here . In both cases the Peenemünde Army Research Center was the target of the attacks. In the cemetery there are both graves with simple boards with the life data of known victims as well as a stele with the inscription "Cemetery of the 2000 victims of the air raids on Peenemünde and Karlshagen on 17/18 August 1943 and 18 July 1944" as well as a larger memorial stone with the dedication “213 forced laborers rest at this place; God says: I know you by name; Exodus 33:17 ” .
Today's Karlshagen Memorial was inaugurated on May 8, 1970, the 25th anniversary of the surrender of the Wehrmacht . After the political change in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and German reunification , it was redesigned in 1994/1995. The facility is freely accessible. The community cemetery of Karlshagen is directly adjacent to the war victims cemetery.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 265.
- Karlshagen memorial and memorial. In: Martin Kaule : Ostseeküste 1933–1945. The historical travel guide. License issue for the state center for political education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 3-86153-521-1 , p. 109
- Christian Mühldorfer-Vogt (ed.): The operation can be carried out with prisoners - forced labor for the war rocket . Peenemünder issues 3; Historical-Technical Museum Peenemünde , Peenemünde 2009.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 16 ″ N , 13 ° 50 ′ 50 ″ E