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Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock (dpa / lnw) - The construction of a nationally significant memorial on the area of the former prisoner of war camp Stalag 326 is supported by the federal government with around 25 million euros.
The budget committee of the German Bundestag made the funds available on Thursday, as the local Bundestag members Achim Post (SPD) and Wiebke Esdar (SPD) announced.
"The place is an admonition to strive for peace again and again, to seek reconciliation again and again," said Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) of the "New Westphalian" (Friday) published in Bielefeld.
75 years after the liberation of the camp in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, representatives of the state thought of the numerous victims at the beginning of October.
In front of around 100 guests, Laschet and State Parliament President André Kuper (both CDU) remembered the suffering of around 300,000 mostly Soviet prisoners of war who were held in the camp on the edge of the Teutoburg Forest from 1941 to 1945.
Around 65,000 of them are said to have died there.
US soldiers liberated the camp on April 2, 1945.
It was one of the largest camps on the territory of the German Empire.
According to the “Neue Westfälische” report, the memorial that has been planned for years will cost 50 million euros.
There is great hope that the country will now provide the other half of the money, it said.
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Message from MP Achim Post / Wiebke Esdar
New Westphalian
Stalag 326