Dortmund Hauptfriedhof

On this war cemetery rest 9,036 war dead.  First World War: 298, Second World War: 8.738

On the foreigners cemetery on Rennweg rest 5,698 war dead. There are foreign and forced laborers as well as prisoners of war, but also foreigners who had fought in units of the Wehrmacht: Russian section with 5,095 War Graves.  

The Soviet Memorial was erected by order of the Soviet forces. It stood until 1964 at the western entrance of the main cemetery.

 

Plan Hauptfriedhof
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Friedhofsflyer_Hauptfriedhof
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