The cemetery of the wicked: the unmarked graves of hundreds of nazi criminals

@ElentirENG ES 11·03·2023 · 23:34 0

I have a habit of publishing my articles about cemeteries in the sacred places category, but today I will make an exception.

A sad monument for sad days when ghosts from the past are reappearing
The Berlin 1939–1945 War Cemetery that honors 3,595 allied soldiers

In southern Germany there is a cemetery located next to the Church of St. Ulrich in Landsberg am Lech, in Bavaria. This place is famous for its prison, built in 1910. Hitler spent several months locked up in that prison after the failed coup d'état he led in Munich in 1923. In his cell he wrote his infamous book " My struggle". After World War II, the Allies imprisoned hundreds of nazi war criminals in that prison.

The prison was run by the United States Army. About 300 nazi war criminals executed during the Nuremberg Trials were buried there, in the cemetery next to the Church of St. Ulrich. These nazi criminals were granted the detail of being buried in individual graves, each one with a cross, unlike what they did with the people they murdered, buried in mass graves or sent to crematoriums. All the graves had the name of the buried person, but years later the plaques were removed, to prevent the place from becoming a place of pilgrimage for those nostalgic for Nazism.

It so happens that in addition to those nazi war crimes, a Polish citizen who survived a German concentration camp is also buried in this cemetery: Peter Chemy. Liberated by the Americans, Chemy spent several months wandering around Germany. When winter arrived he was housed by a German family. One night, he murdered the couple and their daughter with an ax. Chemy was arrested and sentenced to death, buried in the same cemetery as the nazi criminals.

Two weeks ago, Mason Obscura dedicated an interesting video to this gloomy cemetery:

You can see some screenshots from the video here. As you can see, the crosses in the cemetery have a small roof, following a typical German custom.

In addition to not having names, the crosses also have no flowers. It is a place where no one seems the least interested in paying tribute to those buried. Something more than understandable.