Silke Petry, Rolf Keller
Prisoner-of-War Camp Wietzendorf
History and Remembrance
Herausgegeben von der Stiftung niedersächsischer GedenkstättenOver 50,000 Soviet soldiers were sent to the Prisoner-of-War Camp Wietzendorf, 16,000 of whom died.
During the Second World War, the small village of Wietzendorf in the Lüneburg Heath became the scene of a harrowing chapter in history. It was a place of unimaginable suffering for over 50,000 Soviet soldiers. The catastrophic living conditions led to mass deaths from autumn 1941 onwards. With 16,000 victims, the Soviet POW cemetery is one of the largest war cemeteries in Germany. The authors Silke Petry and Rolf Keller provide detailed information about the fate of the prisoners in Wietzendorf, with exemplary biographies allowing personal insights. They also describe the construction and remodelling of the cemeteries for the victims and look at the changes in the culture of remembrance up to recent times. It is a lively appeal against forgetting and a tribute to local commitment.
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During the Second World War, the small village of Wietzendorf in the Lüneburg Heath became the scene of a harrowing chapter in history. It was a place of unimaginable suffering for over 50,000 Soviet soldiers. The catastrophic living conditions led to mass deaths from autumn 1941 onwards. With 16,000 victims, the Soviet POW cemetery is one of the largest war cemeteries in Germany. The authors Silke Petry and Rolf Keller provide detailed information about the fate of the prisoners in Wietzendorf, with exemplary biographies allowing personal insights. They also describe the construction and remodelling of the cemeteries for the victims and look at the changes in the culture of remembrance up to recent times. It is a lively appeal against forgetting and a tribute to local commitment.
Der Titel erscheint komplett in englischer Sprache.
Rolf Keller
Silke Petry
Rolf Keller, geb. 1956, war von 1985 bis 2004 Referent bei der Niedersächsischen Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, zwischen 1999 und 2004 war er Vertreter des Landes Niedersachsen im deutschrussischen Forschungsprojekt »Sowjetische Kriegsgefangene«. …
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Silke Petry, geb. 1963, war von 2004–2009 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten im Projekt »Neugestaltung der Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen«. Seit 2012 ist sie Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Dokumentationsstelle …
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