Gardelegen (dpa/sa) – Unknown persons stole several items from the Isenschnibbe field barn memorial in Gardelegen (Altmarkkreis Salzwedel). This included dedication boards, information stands and information boards, as a police spokeswoman said on Monday. The time of the crime could be between last Friday and Monday. An information stand was found in a bush near the memorial on Monday. The theft is classified by the police as a politically motivated crime.
The memorial commemorates a massacre by the National Socialists. More than 1,000 concentration camp prisoners were locked in a barn near the Isenschnibbe estate, which was set on fire on the evening of April 13, 1945. In addition, prisoners were shot. The visitor center was built on the former death march route. Guests can look out over both the burial ground and the barn through large glass windows in the approximately 80-meter-long, single-storey building. With the end of the war approaching, the Nazis had dissolved many concentration camps in 1945 and sent the prisoners on death marches – through the villages, past the population.
