Grave German Member of the Resistance Elspeet

Elspeet General Cemetery contains the grave of Ernst Camlott.

Ernst Camlott was a German architect who came to The Netherlands in 1926 and who supported the Dutch resistance in Uddel. During a dropping-action on 11 April 1945 at "Vosselt", he and Reijer Schouten, a Dutch resistance member, were killed by mistake. There were buried next to each other.

He was buried in Elspeet. After the war, almost all German graves were transferred to the German war cemetery in Ysselsteyn. On request of his mother, the grave of Ernst Camlott stayed in Elspeet. It is the only known grave of a German resistance member in the Netherlands.

The grave is not registered as Dutch or German war grave. Written on the grave are only his last name and a Dutch religious text.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & H. van Asselt
• Photos: Arjan Vrieze