War Cemetery Butzbach-Nieder Weisel

In this cemetery lie 534 victims of the Second World War (1939-1945).
435 German soldiers and civilians, and 99 foreigners.
The military cemetery was erected by an undertaker unit of the U.S. Army in April 1945. This cemetery served as basis for the later war memorial cemetery. Fallen American and German soldiers were buried here. The deceased had been killed in fighting in the Hesse-Thuringia border area between Suhl and Kassel and were transported on empty supply vehicles of the American Army to this central cemetery. In August 1945 all U.S. soldiers (nearly 900 fallen) were exhumed and most of them brought to France.
In addition to the original 493 mostly German dead, lay in the adjacent northern site 109 foreign war dead. In 1957 followed the transfer of the mortal remains into a common war cemetery.
The majorities of the Soviet and Polish war dead were prisoners of war and died during captivity or by air raids during their use as forced labourers at the river Ruhr region.
Among them are 44 unknown and 30 known Soviet war dead whose date of death is registered as the 23rd April 1945.
Later, Soviet and Polish prisoners of war and/or forced laborers from the district Friedberg were transferred to this war cemetery. Among the victims of war is a Polish woman and a Belgian.
The war cemetery was arranged by the German War Graves Commission in 1952 and the arrangement fully carried out with funding from the Federal Government and the Government of Hesse in 1957 and 1969.

Never again war!               For peace and international understanding!

The Magistrate of the city of Butzbach