In November 2009, near the Shirokorechenskoye cemetery on the 7th kilometer of the Moskovsky Trakt, a renovated, modest memorial to the prisoners of war of the Second World War was opened. This is an integral page of the Great War and it must be understood that it is dedicated to people, and not to fascist ideas. The Shirokorechenskoe cemetery was chosen by the "People's Union of Germany for the Care of War Graves" as the central memorial place for 13 thousand prisoners of war of the German, Hungarian, Romanian, Italian, Japanese armies who fought on the side of Nazi Germany. The vast majority of them are Germans. Of course, not all of them were in the fascist army quite voluntarily and fanatically professed fascist ideas. Their labor was used in the deployment and construction of industrial enterprises evacuated to the Urals, the construction of industrial and civil facilities, and the restoration of the national economy destroyed by the war.
Built by their hands serves to this day, we must pay tribute - they worked in good faith. The "People's Union of Germany for the Care of War Graves" is a humanitarian public organization commissioned by the German government to preserve and care for German war graves abroad. According to the intergovernmental agreement between Russia and the FRG dated January 29.1993 on the joint care of war graves, the German side, represented by the "People's Union", undertook to monitor the safety of the burial places of Soviet soldiers in Germany. Also, the German government assumed all the costs of maintaining memorials in memory of those killed in World War II and Soviet wartime burials located on the territory of the country. In response, the German side is allowed to equip German military cemeteries in Russia
Built by their hands serves to this day, we must pay tribute - they worked in good faith. The "People's Union of Germany for the Care of War Graves" is a humanitarian public organization commissioned by the German government to preserve and care for German war graves abroad. According to the intergovernmental agreement between Russia and the FRG dated January 29.1993 on the joint care of war graves, the German side, represented by the "People's Union", undertook to monitor the safety of the burial places of Soviet soldiers in Germany. Also, the German government assumed all the costs of maintaining memorials in memory of those killed in World War II and Soviet wartime burials located on the territory of the country. In response, the German side is allowed to equip German military cemeteries in Russia
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