German military cemetery at Bad Bodendorf - Friedhof an Bad Bodendorf
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Channel: Alan Heath · 2009 · Travel & Events
SEE MY HISTORY GROUP ON FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alan-Heaths-History-Page/173472422695696 Bad Bodendorf is a village close to Sinzig in the Ahrweiler district in Rheinland-Pfalz. It is on the fast moving Ahr river which can be heard in the background in this film. Following the capture of the Ruhr, there were around 252,000 German POWs in US hands which were located in a temporary POW camps in the area of Remagen and Sinzig. Some of these prisoners were wounded and the condiitions in the camps were extremely primitive. There was a lack of food and medication - not so the prisoners starved but enough to keep them hungry until supplies could be arranged. Some wounded prisoners died for lack of proper care in the turmoil of the end of the war. These 1,212 prisoners are buried here at Bad Bodendorf. As can be seen many were quite old. This cemetery is the largest which served the Rhine meadows camps. According to various denier liar websites and other conspiracist fantacists Eisenhower murdered hundreds of thousands of people here. This cemetery shows once again how these perverts lie. Nonetheless, it is unfortunate that the Allies were not able to give more medical assistance and shelter to these POWs. Close to Bad Bodendorf is the town of Remagen where the Americans crossed the Rhine in the afternoon of 7 March 1945 and that is where my trail will now take me. My channel is one of the most prolific from Poland, although not amongst the most visited. With almost one film per day, one may be forgiven for thinking I do nothing else but I do have a day job as well. I have produced around 1,000 original films, most in English but also in Polish, French, Italian, Spanish and the occasional hint of German and Hebrew. My big interest in life is travel and history but I have also placed films on other subjects Please feel free to ask questions in the public area or to comment on things you disagree with. Sometimes there are mistakes because I speak without preparation. If I see the mistakes myself, I make this clear in the text. Please also leave a star rating! There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- http://www.ceepackaging.com - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focusing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine! Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region. Every packaging trade fair is a new excuse to make another film!
