Cemetery
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World / Germany / Nordrhein-Westfalen / Detmold
Second World War 1939-1945, interesting place, war cemetery
In World War II a site 5 km (3 miles) south-west of Dössel was the location of prisoner of war camp Oflag VI-B (also known as Warburg-Dössel), famous for the 1942 mass escape known as the "Warburg Wire Job". On the night of 27 September 1944, British bombers aiming at the railroad junction in Nörde mistakenly dropped bombs on the camp, killing 90 officers. Altogether 141 prisoners died in Oflag VI-B. They are buried in the cemetery near the centre of the town and a memorial was erected in 1980.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oflag_VI-B
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 51°31'22"N 9°9'49"E
- Oflag VI-B Dössel 1.2 km
- Wilhelmsthal Palace 22 km
- Löwenburg (Lions Castle) 29 km
- Waldeck Castle 36 km
- Edersee Dam 38 km
- Former Benedictine monastery and Breitenau concentration camp 42 km
- Skywalk Willingen 47 km
- Wasserfestung Ziegenhain 68 km
- Rotenburg palace 71 km
- Herzberg castle ruins 86 km
- Desenberg 3.5 km
- Electrical substation 12 km
- Mittelberg Wind Farm 14 km
- Escheberg Wind Farm 15 km
- Solar park 17 km
- Football field 19 km
- Runway 19 km
- Electrical sub-station Grebenstein 20 km
- Kassel Airport (KSF) 20 km
- Dropzone 20 km