Post by pieter on Feb 14, 2023 4:58:38 GMT -7
Ysselsteyn German war cemetery
Ysselsteyn German War Cemetery is a military cemetery interring casualties of the First and Second World Wars. It contains over 31,000 soldiers from around 25 countries, including SS-men and Dutch war criminals. This cemetery is located in the village of Ysselsteyn in the municipality of Venray in Limburg, Netherlands, and is 32 km (20 mi) east of Eindhoven. Ysselsteyn is the largest Second World War German cemetery and is the only Nazi-German cemetery in the Netherlands. Following the war, the Nazi soldiers were reburied in the cemetery. The deceased include Germans, Dutch, Poles, and Russians who fought on the side of the Nazis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ysselsteyn_German_war_cemetery
P.S.- The dead Polish soldiers were forced to serve in the Wehrmacht because they came from Silezien and Dantzig area's, Solesian and Kashubian conscripts to the Wehrmacht. Many of them were not Pro-Nazi, but served, because they lived in area's the German/Austrian Nazi authorities of Nazi Germany considered to be part of Germany. Maybe also some Poles from Königsberg (Ostpreußen/Eastern-Prussia) today the Russian enclave Kaliningrad inbetween Poland and Lithuania.
Ysselsteyn German War Cemetery is a military cemetery interring casualties of the First and Second World Wars. It contains over 31,000 soldiers from around 25 countries, including SS-men and Dutch war criminals. This cemetery is located in the village of Ysselsteyn in the municipality of Venray in Limburg, Netherlands, and is 32 km (20 mi) east of Eindhoven. Ysselsteyn is the largest Second World War German cemetery and is the only Nazi-German cemetery in the Netherlands. Following the war, the Nazi soldiers were reburied in the cemetery. The deceased include Germans, Dutch, Poles, and Russians who fought on the side of the Nazis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ysselsteyn_German_war_cemetery
P.S.- The dead Polish soldiers were forced to serve in the Wehrmacht because they came from Silezien and Dantzig area's, Solesian and Kashubian conscripts to the Wehrmacht. Many of them were not Pro-Nazi, but served, because they lived in area's the German/Austrian Nazi authorities of Nazi Germany considered to be part of Germany. Maybe also some Poles from Königsberg (Ostpreußen/Eastern-Prussia) today the Russian enclave Kaliningrad inbetween Poland and Lithuania.