Mass Grave Forced Labourers Tanne Factories

According to information from the Deutsche Volksbund, an estimated 137 victims of Nazi terror rest here, near the former forced labour camp "Untere Pfauenteiche".

These are mainly Soviet prisoners of war and forced labourers who died of disease and exhaustion during their hard work in the "Werk Tanne" explosives factory or perished in the air raids on the factory in 1944, as well as an unknown number of concentration camp prisoners from the Mittelbau-Dora camp who were shot during a death march near Zellerfeld by their SS guards ,

In addition: - 6 unknown Soviet prisoners of war buried here in 1953 from the municipality of Riefensbeek-Kamschlacken The names of the known victims are inscribed on 2 sandstone tombstones in Cyrillic and Latin script.

In the area, this place is known as the "Russian Cemetery"

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