Mahn und Gedenkstatten Wobbelin

American troops had the victims of the Wöbbelin “reception camp” buried in the middle of Wöbbelin near the Theodor Körner Museum, in Ludwigslust between the palace and the palace church, and in Hagenow and Schwerin. Monuments were later erected at all of the grave sites in the GDR and at the Protestant cemetery in Ludwigslust, where 190 victims who died after the liberation as a result of their imprisonment were buried. The memorial stone which was placed there in 1965, which shows a hand and a peace dove, was designed by Herbert Bartholomäus. In 1993, the Italian embassy had a black granite gravestone placed there to commemorate the Italian prisoners who died. In 1960, a sandstone relief by sculptor Jo Jastram was erected in Wöbbelin for the victims of the satellite camp.

The first exhibition on the Wöbbelin camp opened in late 1965 in a room of the Theodor Körner Museum, which had been built in 1938 as a site of Nazi hero worship for the poet. Since 1995, an exhibition with the title “Ten Weeks of the Wöbbelin Satellite Camp” has informed visitors of the fate of the prisoners held in the camp and the mass deaths at the end of the war. The two exhibitions were redesigned and revised in the 1990s in order to be placed in context with each other. 2014 a new permanent exhibition was opened.

A mass grave with victims of the Wöbbelin satellite camp was discovered and partially opened in 1961 in the grounds of the former camp in the forest near Neu Lüblow, but it has not been investigated any further. It is not known how many people are buried there. A simple memorial stone was erected in 1965. In 1995, the Wöbbelin memorials placed an information plaque there as well.