#Gardelegen

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Gardelegen Mahn- und Gedenkstätte

Reichenbach (Vogtl): VEB #BILDundHEIMAT Reichenbach i.V. (V 11 50 A 1/B 458/72 01 07 03 052).

Foto: Bild und Heimat (#HeribertDarr)

1972

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Gardelegen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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GARDELEGEN - GERMANY

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The History Channel rewrites history by erasing Polish victims of Nazi Germany and claiming they were Jews…. SOURCE: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gardelegen-massacre-nazi-fire-wwii The massacre that took place in the German town of Gardelegen on 13th April 1945 was perpetrated by local Germans of the Volkssturm, Hitlerjugend and some of the town's firefighters under the direction of the Nazi SS. The perpetrators forced over 1000 slave labourers (who had been evacuated from the Mittelbau-Dora and Hannover-Stöcken concentration camps) into a large brick barn, which was then set on fire. Most were burned alive or shot while trying to escape.

The next day, the SS and their collaborators returned to the scene of the crime to dispose of the evidence. However, the swift advance of the 102nd Infantry Division of the US Army prevented them from carrying out this plan. After capturing Gardelegen on 14th April 1945 the Americans soon discovered the still-smouldering barn with hundreds of corpses inside, and nearby trenches where the Germans had begun to bury the charred remains of the victims.

The Americans also discovered a few survivors of the massacre, most of whom were Polish slavs.

The victims were of several nationalities, but the majority of those who it was possible to identify were also ethnically Polish.

The so-called History Channel's claim that they were all Jews is completely false.

The testimonies of the survivors were later collected by Polish writer Melchior Wańkowicz and published in his book "From Stołpców To Cairo", in 1969. According to one Polish survivor, Romuald Bąk, who managed to escape from the burning barn, it was full of fresh straw that smelled of gasoline. After herding their prisoners into the barn the SS threw incendiary grenades into it. Fire broke out in several places and was fought by the prisoners. The interior was soon filled with smoke and people were dying all around. Bąk had a knife and began digging a hole next to the barn door. A grenade explosion helped to create a gap that was large enough for him to squeeze through….

US Army Signal Corps photographers soon arrived to document the crime and within a few days the story of the Gardelegen massacre began appearing in the Western press.

On 21st April 1945, the Americans ordered men from Gardelegen to give the victims a proper burial. Over the next few days, the German civilians exhumed 586 bodies from the trenches and recovered 430 bodies from the barn, placing each in an individual grave.

Only one of the perpetrators was officially prosecuted for the Gardelegen massacre: SS-Untersturmführer Erhard Brauny. He appeared before the Dachau Military Tribunal in 1947, and was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He died of leukemia in 1950.

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Meine Lesereise geht weiter. Ich fahre diese Woche nach Pasewalk (07.09), Gardelegen (09.09) und Schleiz (10.09). Die thüringische Stadt Schleiz habe ich gut in Erinnerung behalten, wegen des Tieres, das sie im Wappen hat - und das genauso aussieht wie ein Plüschtier, das ich als Kind von meiner Mutter geschenkt bekam. Es war ein großes weißes Schaf. Ich wollte aber ein schwarzes haben. Deswegen versuchte ich in meiner Freizeit aus dem weißen Schaf mit Tinte und dem Rasierpinsel meines Vaters ein schwarzes

zu machen. Ich übertrieb es aber und verwendete zu viel Tinte, meinen Eltern gefiel das Ergebnis meiner Arbeit überhaupt nicht. Sie schmissen das Tier weg, versprachen aber, mir ein neues zu kaufen. Ich habe lange gewartet, doch meine Eltern haben ihr Versprechen nie eingelöst. Nun sah ich dieses Tier, den Traum meiner Kindheit, eigentlich viel zu spät und weit von Zuhause weg. Ich erzählte dem Bürgermeister, dass ich genauso ein Tier als Kind hatte und was ein schwarzes Schaf eigentlich symbolisch bedeuten würde. Dies sei gar kein Schaf, erklärte mir der Bürgermeister, sondern ein Wisent, ein europäischer Bison, Früher im

Mittelalter gab es jede Menge Wisente in dieser Gegend, jetzt sind sie längst ausgestorben, existieren nur noch als Plüschtier oder als

Wappentier. Ich bekam den thüringischen Bison als Plüschtier von ihm geschenkt. Die Kinder im Zug schauten neidisch in meine Richtung, Mamas Katze fiel Zuhause vor Schreck fast vom Balkon.

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Hero Albert Leonard Wittenberg.

I had planned to do a pots on the victims of Buchenwald who died shortly after liberation, but I got side tracked, I stumbled across the story of Albert Leonard Wittenberg. Albert was born on April 14,1909 in Paramaribo, Surinam. Surinam was a Dutch colony in South America. Like many of his fellow country men and women he moved to the Netherlands. He got a job as a firefighter in…

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Rammstein, Open Air festival Pirk (Gardelegen or Zicken Zienau) in East Germany, 1994 (x)

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Schöne Grüße aus dem Kurzurlaub in der Nähe von Gardelegen ❤️

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"Kannst Du mir die Adresse vom Studenten aus Moskau schicken?"

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Mieste (Kr. Gardelegen) Polytechnische Oberschule

Reichenbach (Vogtl): VEB BILD UND HEIMAT Reichenbach i.V. (V 11 28 A 3/62 DDR 7/1470)

Foto: Hille, Gardelegen

1962

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Himmelfahrt in Gardelegen

09/05

May you rest in peace

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James Wallace Harris: Hansestadt Gardelegen. Acrylic on canvas 35.75" x 28.75" April 18, 2023 https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Hansestadt-Gardelegen/292357/10384287/view #architecture #art #arte #pittura#peinture #kunst #konst #schilderij #futurism #futurismo #maalaus #taide #industrial #technology #painting

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Unangekündigte Kontrolle im Tierheim Gardelegen: Keine neuen Verstöße, aber Verbesserungen dringend nötig! http://dlvr.it/TGW5VK

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GARDELEGEN - GERMANY