{"id":53647,"date":"2023-11-03T23:34:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T22:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53647"},"modified":"2023-11-03T23:34:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T22:34:32","slug":"the-cemetery-of-the-wicked-the-unmarked-graves-of-hundreds-of-nazi-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/03\/the-cemetery-of-the-wicked-the-unmarked-graves-of-hundreds-of-nazi-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"The cemetery of the wicked: the unmarked graves of hundreds of nazi criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a habit of publishing my articles about cemeteries in the sacred places category, but today I will make an exception.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/10\/a-sad-monument-for-sad-days-when-ghosts-from-the-past-are-reappearing\/\">A sad monument for sad days when ghosts from the past are reappearing<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/31\/the-berlin-1939-1945-war-cemetery-that-honors-3595-allied-soldiers\/\">The Berlin 1939\u20131945 War Cemetery that honors 3,595 allied soldiers<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>In southern Germany there is <strong>a cemetery located next to the Church of St. Ulrich in Landsberg am Lech<\/strong>, in Bavaria. This place is famous for its prison, built in 1910. <strong>Hitler spent several months locked up in that prison<\/strong> after the failed coup d'\u00e9tat he led in Munich in 1923. In his cell he wrote his infamous book \" My struggle\". After World War II, <strong>the Allies imprisoned hundreds of nazi war criminals in that prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prison was run by the United States Army. <strong>About 300 nazi war criminals executed during the Nuremberg Trials were buried there<\/strong>, in the cemetery next to the Church of St. Ulrich. <strong>These nazi criminals were granted the detail of being buried in individual graves<\/strong>, each one with a cross, unlike what they did with the people they murdered, buried in mass graves or sent to crematoriums. <strong>All the graves had the name of the buried person, but years later the plaques were removed<\/strong>, to prevent the place from becoming a place of pilgrimage for those nostalgic for Nazism.<\/p>\n<p>It so happens that in addition to those nazi war crimes, <strong>a Polish citizen who survived a German concentration camp is also buried in this cemetery: Peter Chemy<\/strong>. Liberated by the Americans, Chemy spent several months wandering around Germany. When winter arrived he was housed by a German family. <strong>One night, he murdered the couple and their daughter with an ax.<\/strong> Chemy was arrested and sentenced to death, buried in the same cemetery as the nazi criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MasonObscura\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Obscura<\/a> dedicated an interesting video to this gloomy cemetery:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WWII&#039;s Most Heinous Men Are All Buried Here\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oL6p7VsaKZY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots from the video here. As you can see, <strong>the crosses in the cemetery have a small roof<\/strong>, following a typical German custom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53308055864_5fb3b073ec_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In addition to not having names, the crosses also have no flowers.<\/strong> It is a place where no one seems the least interested in paying tribute to those buried. Something more than understandable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53308055869_32176d18a5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a habit of publishing my articles about cemeteries in the sacred places category, but today I will make an exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,10617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-explorando_en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}