The Catholic Cemetery in Meppen contains three war graves burial sections.
The Polish burial section holds the graves of 16 soldiers from the 1st Polish Armoured Division (6 remain unidentified), 2 Polish soldiers from other military units and 45 Polish forced labourers - women, men and children. Most died after the war, in British military hospitals among other places. The only exception is Senior Rifleman Konrad Pospieszyński (11th Sapper Company) who died on 28 April 1945 during the construction of the crossing on the Leda River. The site is marked by a monument (three crosses entwined with each other), a memorial plaque and 25 gravestones that are placed on both sides of the crosses. However, the remains of the victims were not moved here and they were left in their original graves.
Right behind the Polish cemetery, on the right side, there is a burial site for 62 German soldiers and several civilian victims. They were killed in the Meppen hospital during an air bombardment on 11 January 1944 or fell in battles against the Allied forces towards the end of the war.
Behind this site, on the right side, there are graves from the time of World War I. This is the final resting place for 22 soldiers who died in the Meppen hospital - mainly in 1918 - as well as for 11 Russian prisoners of war who died in 1918.
According to the local authorities, in total, 148 victims of World War II and the National Socialistic tyranny lie in the cemetery, 125 of whom are known by their last names.
