Friedhof Ohlsdorf Hamburg

At 391ha, the Ohlsdorf General Cemetery in Hamburg is one of the largest cemeteries in the world and also the final resting place of more than 50,000 war dead. Numerous monuments, memorials and chapels have been erected here in their memory.

From World War I:
More than 3,400 German soldiers
676 Commonwealth soldiers
249 war victims of other nationalities

From the Interwar period:
61 revolutionaries who died between 1918 and 1920

From World War II:
1,931 German soldiers
1,889 Commonwealth soldiers
1,932 victims of concentration camps
1,703 forced labourers/prisoners of war from 28 different countries
More than 400 Dutch war victims
49 refugees
320 foreign war victims (died after the war)
36,918 bombing victims killed in 1943
2,282 other bombing victims

The Crematorium at the cemetery was built in 1933. From 1933, about 500 Resistance fighters who had received the death penalty were cremated here. In the early years of Concentration Camp Neuengamme, prisoners who died there were also cremated here.

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Source

• Text: Traces of War
• Photos: Jan de Jager
• https://www.friedhof-hamburg.de/die-friedhoefe/ohlsdorf/sonderanlagen/