Belgian War Graves Custinne

The Custinne cemetery contains the war grave of Joseph GARNIER, mayor during the Second World War.
"Joseph GARNIER
Mayor of Custinne
Arrested on August 26, 1944
Political prisoner
disappeared in German
concentration camps"

Apparently he stayed in Wöbbelin, a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp near the city of Ludwigslust.

At the end of August 1944, after the liberation of Paris, the Germans started reprisals in Belgium.
The violence started in the Arlon region where 21 resistance fighters were murdered.
This was followed by a new 'purge' in the Ciney region as a result of local resistance activities.
Under the leadership of the Obersturmführer Strauch, a colorful group of 800 to 1000 men (Feldgendarmes, Sipo-SD of Dinant and Charleroi, Walloon Garden, SS Flanders, SS Wallonie and Wehrmacht) criss-crossed the area, arresting dozens of suspects in the villages Custinne, Pessoux, Jannée and Ciney.
The mayor of Custinne, Joseph Garnier, was also arrested during one of these actions.

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