Wandau military cemetery

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Wandau military cemetery near Hieflau

The Wandau military cemetery is located in the Wandau north of Hieflau in the municipality of Landl in the Liezen district in Styria .

history

In the last days of the Second World War in 1945 there was a Wehrmacht interception staff near Hieflau . In a forest near the Wandau chapel , dispersed soldiers were sentenced to death by a court martial and shot. In 1966 a memorial was erected on the site.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Wandau: War atrocities. In: Josef Hasitschka: The Gesäuse. The Gesäuse (PDF) Gesäuse National Park , Admont 2012.

Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 50.5 ″  N , 14 ° 44 ′ 53 ″  E