Dutch war cemetery in Lübeck

The Dutch War Cemetery Lübeck (in Dutch: Nederlands Ereveld Lübeck or Erebegraafplaats Lübeck ) is located within the Vorwerker Friedhof , which is located on Friedhofsallee in the north of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in Germany. The Dutch Ehrenfeld is, seen from entrance 3 in the Friedhofsallee, in block 37 of the cemetery, near the Fackenburger Landgraben .

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Information board about the Dutch war cemetery in Lübeck, which is located within the Vorwerker cemetery.

Three-winged monument with the names of the other 242 Dutch war victims.

After the occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, hundreds of thousands of Dutch boys and men were used as slave labor from 1940 to 1945 to replace the German workers conscripted for the war . Almost 30,000 Dutch people died during this mission. In Germany from 1952 to 1958, the Foundation of the Dutch War Graves Commission established seven war cemeteries on a decentralized basis.

The Dutch dead from Schleswig-Holstein and Berlin are buried in the graves of the Dutch war cemetery in Lübeck , who died in concentration camps , through Nazi forced labor and during what is known as labor. 250 Dutch victims who perished during the Second World War rest in the war cemetery itself. On the plaques of a three-winged monument, the name of the 242 Dutch victims who perished, but of whom it is not known where they are buried, is also named. A list of the names of the Dutch victims who died in World War II is available.

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Erebegraafplaats Lübeck (graves and monument)

The war cemetery is surrounded by a hedge. Access is through an iron gate. At the back of the gate there is a mailbox containing the name book and the visitor book for relatives. Two grave fields are separated by a green central aisle. The central aisle leads to the three-winged monument with the deceased, not buried victims.