Cmentarz Ofiar Terroru Hitlerowskiego w Olsztynie
Cemetery of Victims of Hitler‘s Terror in Olsztyn

Summary/Abstract: Separated quarters at ul. Jan Baczewski was called the Cemetery of the Victims of Hitler’s Ter-ror, because until 1989 the communist authorities classified the discovered bodies of civiliansas victims of Nazi terror. Thus, they did not admit that many of them died at the hands of Sovietsoldiers. The consequence of such historical policy was the falsification of information aboutthe origins of the people buried there and the perpetrators of their death. Thus, the victimsof Soviet criminals were deleted. Citizens of various countries, mainly Poland and Germany, and individual people from Italy, France and the USSR were buried in the war headquarters. Theseare victims who died at the hands of German and Soviet criminals and as a result of conditionsresulting from war operations.

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