POW Cemetery Zchepa I

Friedhof III, Prisoner of War Graves Zchepa I formerly "Russenfriedhof Truppenübungsplatz, Parzelle 58".

In this cemetery of the POW camp Zeithain, Russian prisoners of war were buried from December 1942 to September 1944.

The bodies were brought to this graveyard by Soviet prisoners of war on small dump trucks by rail for more than 1 kilometre. After the war it was established that more than 8,500 prisoners of war were buried. Until the departure of the Russians in 1992, this cemetery could not be visited.

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Source

• Text: Jos Birx
• Photos: Jos Birx