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Märkischer KreisLüdenscheidHunswinkel Memorial "Shadows of the Past"
DiscoverPlaces to seeGermanyNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Arnsberg District
Märkischer KreisLüdenscheidHunswinkel Memorial "Shadows of the Past"
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Hunswinkel Memorial "Shadows of the Past"
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Gerhard H.
May 18, 2024
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"Between 1940 and 1945, the Hunswinkel labor education and concentration camp was located in the Valley of Verse below this place. Of the many thousands of prisoners from the Soviet Union, Germany, Poland, Belgium, France, Italy, Yugoslavia and the Netherlands, at least 550 were killed by starvation, hard labor and shooting. Source: Information board
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Fuchseltier
October 8, 2025
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The memorial commemorates the forced laborers who died during the construction of the Verse Dam.
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Elevation 440 m
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