Over 50 000 Soviet soldiers were sent to the Prisoner-of-War Camp Wietzendorf 16 000 of whom
died. During the Second World War the small village of Wietzendorf in the Lüneburg Heath
became the scene of a harrowing chapter in history. It was a place of unimaginable suffering
for over 50 000 Soviet soldiers. The catastrophic living conditions led to mass deaths from
autumn 1941 onwards. With 16 000 victims the Soviet POW cemetery is one of the largest war
cemeteries in Germany. The authors Silke Petry and Rolf Keller provide detailed information
about the fate of the prisoners in Wietzendorf with exemplary biographies allowing personal
insights. They also describe the construction and remodelling of the cemeteries for the victims
and look at the changes in the culture of remembrance up to recent times. It is a lively appeal
against forgetting and a tribute to local commitment. Der Titel erscheint komplett in
englischer Sprache.
