THE MASS GRAVE
More than 2,200 concentration camp prisoners had been buried in mass graves in the Mühldorfer Hart. When the American military arrived they soon discovered the mass graves. American soldiers immediately arranged for the exhumation of the dead by former NSDAP members. An honorable burial of the exhumed bodies was subsequently arranged in the local cemetery. The local population, including children, was required to be present at the burial ceremony. All those present were required to walk past the exposed human remains, thereby bearing witness to the horrors that had taken place. In the ensuing five years, the Americans built four memorial concentration camp cemeteries in the region as a fitting, honorable and permanent resting place for the dead. These memorial concentration camp cemeteries are located in Mühldorf am Inn, Kraiburg am Inn, Burghausen and Neumarkt St. Veit.
Info-Center at the Kronprinzenstein
The subcamps and labor camps at Mühldorfer Hart were all an integral part of the bunker site construction project and complex. To commemorate the suffering of the prisoners and the dead buried in the four memorial concentration camp cemeteries in the region, an information center consisting of three separate structures was erected and opened to the public in April 2018. The structures are near the former mass graves where the remains of more than 2,200 prisoners were discovered after the war.
