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Old 01-01-2008, 10:37 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Most of the garrison died through asphyxiation. A German round struck the fume extractors, gassing all those inside. Some bodies were not found until the 1970s.

Memorial, and then graves in the military cemetery.
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