Schwerin (dpa/mv) - Under the impression of the war of aggression in Ukraine, the dead of war and tyranny will be commemorated at more than 40 events on the national day of mourning in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania next weekend. A central commemoration is to take place on Sunday morning in the plenary hall of Schwerin Castle, as the Volksbund War Graves Commission announced on Monday.
On the day of national mourning, which falls on November 13 this year, all those who died in war and tyranny in Germany and around the world are remembered. "But this year we are thinking in particular of the war dead and their relatives in Ukraine: the many soldiers who have fallen and civilians who have been killed in recent months." Sympathy also goes to the killed Russian soldiers, who could not have avoided this war and who were often held accountable with a false truth.
According to the Volksbund, more than 76,000 victims of war and tyranny are buried in around 600 war cemeteries in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Among them are a large number of civilian deaths, according to the association's website. According to this, several thousand victims of the bombing of Swinemünde (Swinoujscie) on March 12, 1945 rest on the Golm on Usedom alone.
The German War Graves Commission was founded shortly after the First World War. He devotes himself to the care of war victims' graves and international youth cooperation. He also maintains an online database for searching war graves of loved ones.
