Brakel

In the post-war years, until 1954, war graves were moved from the districts of Höxter, Minden, Paderborn and Detmold to the area where 18 German soldiers who died fighting for Brakel in the spring of 1945 were buried. Apart from the graves of German soldiers and civilians, several dozen graves of forced laborers from Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Russia and Poland were transferred. The war cemetery is a place of annual ceremonies commemorating the war victims.

On the right from the entrance, at the first rows of graves, there is a book with a plan of the cemetery and an alphabetical list of names, with several of them sounding Polish (original spelling preserved):

KH. BULINSKI * 1925 † 1945

JOHANN CIESILSKI * 3.2.1924 † 22.5.1945

KURT JABLONSKI * 22.6.1902 † 8.11.1945

HERBERT KOTERSKI * 11.10.1912 † 13.2.1946

EMIL KOWALOK * 23.9.1926 † 11.8.1946

NIKOLAI LIPINA * 1927 † 1945

ALOIS MANIA * 1904 † 1945

JÓZEF POTYKA * 26.4.1902 † 31.3.1946

KARL PRZIGODA * 17.1.1923 † 10.10.1944

HEL. SABLOTNY * 1927 † 1946

J. ZASADZKI * 1908 † 1945

JÓZEF WINIARSKI * 1.1.1901 † 16.11.1945