General view of graves in the KZ-Friedhof Dachau Leitenberg cemetery, Dachau, Germany.
The Leitenberg cemetery is an extension of the Dachau Concentration Camp memorial site as it was over 4,000 dead prisoners were buried in mass graves (as the furnaces in the camp could not cope). They consisted mostly of prisoners who died before liberation but also many who died of disease and malnutrition shortly afterwards. The memorial site consists of a path up a hill made up of the Stations of the Cross, a small Italian chapel and a large enclosed cemetery of unmarked graves presumably over the mass graves. It was a very quiet but fortunately well maintained place which is not on the general route of visitors who visit Dachau. Like the shooting range at Hebertshausen, Leitenberg is part of the Dachau memorial site (it is located about 1 mile from the camp).
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Location: Dachau, Bavaria, Germany
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: bavaria, camp, cemetery, concentration, dachau, germany, grave, graves, holocaust, kz-friedhof, leitenberg, markers, munich
