On April 27, 1945, shortly before the end of the Second World War, a massacre took place in Poing.
A commemorative event was held at the memorial to mark the anniversary.
Poing - Around 3,600 mostly Jewish concentration camp prisoners were crammed into the 30 to 40 wagons of the so-called "death train".
The prisoner transport, which was traveling from Mühldorf to Seeshaupt, had to stop in Poing on April 27, 1945 due to a technical defect.
Many of the emaciated inmates tried to use this to escape.
At least 50 of the prisoners were shot by SS henchmen, more than 200 were injured and pushed back onto the train, which continued its journey.
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Every year on April 27, the community of Poing commemorates the massacre and the "death train" in Poing.
At the memorial, which has been erected on the south side of the S-Bahn station on Bahnhofstrasse since 2010.
This time around 100 people came to the commemoration, at which Mayor Thomas Stark and the two pastors Philipp Werner (Catholic) and Michael Simonsen (Protestant) spoke.
As in the previous year, students from the Politics and Contemporary History working group from the Franz-Markt-Gymnasium Markt Schwaben held a scenic reading on the events at the end of the Second World War in Poing.
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