The north-eastern part of the Raderhorst Cemetery, to the left of the cemetery chapel, once contained the graves of Polish citizens who, after the war, stayed in the so-called ‘DPs camp’ (camps for displaced persons) in Raderhorst. This burial section is marked on the archival plan of the cemetery. Nowadays, however, in this site is a bell tower and a rectangular section overgrown with ivy, providing no indication or information about the Polish citizens who were buried here.
According to the archival lists in possession of the German War Grave Commission (Der Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V.), this was a burial site for at least 13 Polish citizens, including children born after the war, who died between 1945 and 1946.
Opposite the chapel is a stone memorial bearing a German metal cross and standing on a plinth, which bears the inscription: ‘Bow your head in deep respect to the victims of both World Wars.’ The memorial seems to be symbolic in character; however, there are no war graves to be found in this burial site. Therefore, on account of the form of this memorial, no one can treat it as a memorial commemorating the war victims from Poland.
