War Memorial Spa

This monument at Place du Monument in the center of Spa commemorates the civilians and soldiers of Spa who perished in the 1st and 2nd World War.

Also 2 soldiers killed in the Korean War.

The side of the monument lists the names of those who died due to acts of war, were murdered, or died in combat.

On the front is also a crypt in which a casket containing ashes from the camp crematorium of concentration camp Flossenburg (Bavaria is kept. It is the ashes of murdered political prisoners and others undesirable to the German Reich, as well as the "commandos," the prisoners who carried out the sondercommando, work on the crematoria. They were burned here themselves after they were no longer useful for this inhumane work due to exhaustion, illness or for pure randomness.

The ashes were extracted in July 1972 and placed in the crypt in May 1973.

On this crypt, one can also see on the left the symbol of the triangle with a B that Belgian political prisoners had to wear on their civilian clothing or camp clothes so that it was clear to the guards what type of prisoner they were and what country they came from. For example, Polish political prisoners had a triangle with a P. The color of the symbol also indicated a particular reason. For example, red was for political prisoners, green was for criminals and black for people acused for lazyness.

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