Czech republic

Pacov

Total Occupation: 284 fatalities

Total Occupation: 284 fatalities


The 284 soldiers who died as prisoners of war during the Second World War were buried in individual graves.

The cemetery, which in 1990 was still recognizable as a clearing with symbolic burial mounds, a few grave markers and a high birch cross in a tall spruce forest, has been preserved.

The site was restored in 1996/1997 by leveling the graves and sowing the area with grass. A picket fence protects the prisoner of war cemetery. The names and dates of the dead are engraved on two granite desk stones to the right and left of the high cross. The memorial statement, also engraved in a granite stone, is located in front of the wooden high cross. The two burial plots to the right and left of the cemetery path, which was paved with local natural stones, are marked by groups of symbolic crosses.

The cemetery is home to 284 fallen soldiers from the Second World War. The cemetery was dedicated on September 20, 1997.