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Garrison Cemetery Poznan

The garrison cemetery of the Citadel Poznan contains a mausoleum with the ashes of Russian prisoners of war who died during the First World War.

The cemetery also has a plot for 126 Polish soldiers who fell in the period 1918-1920. They are buried in 122 graves.

There is also a field of honor for 24 Polish airmen who fell in September 1939.

FRENCH MEMORIAL
At this memorial, in the Poznan Cytadela in the Cmentarz żołnierzy radzieckich, is the burial place for 1333 French prisoners-of-war who died in this are in in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) and in World I. It is also the burial place for three French soldiers of Napoleon who were formely buried at Gniezno.
On the memorial is a plaque commemorating six French prisoners-of-war who were decapitated between 1940 and 1943 in Poznań.

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