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Cologne District

Bergisches Land

Burgholz Massacre Memorial and Rest Area

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North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Bergisches Land

Burgholz Massacre Memorial and Rest Area

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Burgholz Massacre Memorial and Rest Area

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Location: Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

November 23, 2020

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"... The Nazi murders in Burgholz (also known as the Burgholz massacre) were a final crime in March 1945, in which 30 people - women and men - were killed in the Wuppertal state forest Burgholz by members of the Gestapo and the Wuppertal criminal police. This crime is the only known mass murder in Wuppertal during the Nazi era. ..."

Background, the events in Wuppertal, after the end of the war, etc.:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS-Morde_im_Burgholz

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yves klein

March 4, 2025

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When forced laborers managed to escape from their camps, for example after air raids, they were left stranded without shelter or food. They could only survive with support from the population or through raids. If they were tracked down, they were usually murdered indiscriminately. Here and in many other places. The only hope in the trap was the advance of the American troops. Thousands did not live to see that.

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Andreas

July 15, 2018

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Twenty-four people were executed for crimes that could not be proven to them.

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