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Hoffnungsthal Prisoner-of-War Camp Memorial

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Hoffnungsthal Prisoner-of-War Camp Memorial

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  • Location: Rösrath, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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    May 26, 2021

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    As a memorial to the endless number of war dead, such places are still very important today. "Now, Lord, let your servant go in peace, as you said." The people who are commemorated here, however, by no means parted in peace, but became victims of war and an inhuman tyranny.
    The most important and at the same time everlasting function of the soldiers' or honorary cemeteries or war cemeteries is therefore to keep the memory of this suffering alive and – every generation anew (!) – to remind people of the lasting preservation of peace.
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    October 3, 2018

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    To commemorate the Nazi era during World War II.
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    June 30, 2018

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    The prisoner of war camp Hoffnungsthal was located here in World War II, where people of different nationalities were victims of hunger, illness and violence. Their sufferings and their deaths call for peace.
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    Elevation 130 m

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    Location: Rösrath, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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