International Call on researching POW (WW2)

Assistance not planned?

INTERNATIONAL

CALL

RESEARCHING

to remain in the Upper Palatinate inserted prisoner of war

The parish church of Eslarn / Oberpfalz.

Assistance not planned?

Eslarn, June 2014

Dear Readers,

Thank you for your interest in this publication!

After nearly twenty years, we stumbled managed to obtain documents about hundreds of mostly prisoners of war. This had to between 1 939 and 1 945 in the so-called "Altlandkreis VohenstrauĂ&#x;", but hundreds above all work under duress in the market town Eslarn.

So far this has been disputed by many places, and it was tried to qualify this now given fact as ludicrously.

The municipal archives Eslarn should not be open in 1 997 because of the protection of personal rights. We thought and also think, these people who had here to do forced labor even had and have personality rights.

We currently estimate that the slave laborers and forced laborers employed here in our region have been treated well.

But we still ask why things had to be secretive now another twenty years.

Currently we still do not know how many people have died here during this work, where they are buried, and how many people in the circumstances could return yet in their home countries, Russia, France, Belgium, Italy, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Ukraine.

No one from the area is currently willing to help us in clarifying, so we start this international call. Perhaps there is a fear more to say when you want to say. ../ 2

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If you know anything in connection with the Altlandkreis Vohenstrauß, or suspect that one ore some of your relatives as prisoners of war have been here, please do not hesitate to ask.

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