In the final phase of the Nazi dictatorship, thousands of concentration camp prisoners had to go from Dachau to South Tyrol – on foot. They camped near Munich, 28 of them died there. As the municipality of Münsing now wants to remember you.
Shortly after the end of the war, the clergyman Ludwig Betzinger gave a drastic account of what hardly anyone wanted to talk about for decades. “Almost all of them were like skeletons, only covered with human skin, some had swollen feet, swollen hands … the dirt they lay in and their smell was indescribable! … an unprecedented picture of horror!” This is how the Degerndorf pastor wrote to Michael Cardinal Faulhaber in July 1945. At the end of April, thousands of concentration camp prisoners had camped miserably for two days on the death march south in the forest above Achmühle. When they moved on, 68 of them were dead, 28 were buried in a mass grave at Degerndorf Cemetery.