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| Pictures from Moosburg |
The POW cemetery and memorial |
 The cemetery of the POW camp Stalag
VII A is situated south of Moosburg in Oberreit -
close to the federal road B 11.
The numbers of POWs originally buried there are not quite clear: 819 (or 746) Russians, 43 (60) Yugoslavs, 41 (43) French, 31 British, 22 (23) Italians, 17 Polish, 15 Belorussians, 11 Americans, 3 (6) Romanians, 1 Czech, 1 Greek. The vast majority of soldiers who died in the camp were Soviet Russians. Moreover, hundreds of Russian soldiers were transported from Moosburg to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald and shot there. |
 In 1949 the POW cemetery was remodelled. Then
and in 1958 when the site was closed the bodies were exhumed
and transferred to other cemeteries (Bad Tölz, Schwabstadl
near Landsberg, Munich). In the following time the site was
used as farm land and even as a rubbish dump. Finally, the
Town of Moosburg aquired the former cemetery and in 1982
added a memorial cross and a stone with a simple inscription:
1939-1945 STADT (Town of) MOOSBURG 1982 Pictures: © WebTeam Moosburg Literature: Das Kriegsgefangenenlager STALAG VII A Moosburg in Oberbayern, Moosburg 1995, p. 95, 103, 106f., 111 Further information in German: Gedenkstätte Oberreit (WebTeam Thonstetten) |
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