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The Lieberose camp, a satellite of the larger Sachsenhausen concentration camp north of Berlin, was open from 1943 to February 1945. During that time SS officers shot and killed 1,300 sick and invalid Jewish inmates.
"It was above all a place of suffering for Jewish prisoners that the Nazis brought from Auschwitz or directly from their home regions," said Jorst Seferenz, spokesman for the Foundation for Brandenburg Memorials, referring to the infamous death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Bodies were first discovered at a grave near Lieberose in 1958, and almost 600 were found in 1971.
During the Cold War, East German officials took some of the bodies to Dresden for examination. Some were later interred in Frankfurt an der Oder, a town on the present-day border with Poland, while others were cremated and returned to the Lieberose site, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) southeast of Berlin.
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Jun 16, 2009 at 11:56 AM Anonymous Says:
the whole germany is a grave yard from the 1940s. how any person can still denie wat happened there is unbelievable.
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Jun 16, 2009 at 01:03 PM Unbelievable ! Says:
Why has it taken so many years? Why were the maisim so disrespectfully buried? What is going on over there? Aren't there Organizations that have reviewed this over the decades? There must be better supervision and review of what the situation is in the numerous prison camps and killing fields in Germany while the living survivors can still exert moral pressure. When the survivors are gone nothing will be done. Who is in charge ????
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Jun 16, 2009 at 12:57 PM Anonymous Says:
I didn't exatly get it there making it a cemetery or just reconizing it as one
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Jun 16, 2009 at 12:55 PM Anonymous Says:
who would want to be beried there
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Jun 16, 2009 at 12:52 PM Anonymous Says:
Yitgaddal veyitqaddash shmeh rabba
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Jun 16, 2009 at 12:05 PM Anonymous Says:
it's a shame what happened but at least these beasts decided to try and give some closure by make a cemetery out of this holy site. mashiach meg shone cimmen
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Jun 16, 2009 at 10:10 PM me Says:
The whole of Germany is not a mass grave. The Germans were generally very careful about not running transport trains through Germany or Austria. They didn't want to risk upsetting the populace. This, as opposed to Poland and the Ukraine which can easily be categorized as mass graves.