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Prisoner-of-War Camp Wietzendorf - History and Remembrance

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 15.11.2025

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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.

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Rolf Keller, geb. 1956, war von 1985 bis 2004 Referent bei der Niedersächsischen Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, zwischen 1999 und 2004 war er Vertreter des Landes Niedersachsen im deutschrussischen Forschungsprojekt »Sowjetische Kriegsgefangene«. Von 2000 bis 2007 arbeitete er als Leiter des Recherche- und Ausstellungsprojektes »Kriegsgefangenenlager« im Rahmen der Neukonzeption der Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen und ist seit 2004 als Abteilungsleiter in der Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten in Celle tätig.Silke Petry, geb. 1963, war von 2004–2009 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten im Projekt »Neugestaltung der Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen«. Seit 2012 ist sie Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Dokumentationsstelle Widerstand und Verfolgung 1933–1945 auf dem Gebiet des Landes Niedersachsen der Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten, Celle.
Veröffentlichungen u. a.:
Sowjetische Kriegsgefangene im Arbeitseinsatz (Mithg., 2013).

Summary

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.

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