The Rakvere German military cemetery

The Rakvere German military cemetery held the graves of German soldiers of the Second World War. During the occupation it was destroyed, and it was restored only in the 1990s.

The Rakvere German war cemetery (2019). Photo: WikedKentaur (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.

Destruction and restoration

During the occupation the cemetery was levelled and a bicycle track — and later a children's playground — was built over the soldiers' graves. The war-grave markers vanished. The cemetery was restored and reopened in the spring of 1997; like many German military cemeteries in Estonia, it was put in order at the initiative of the German war-graves organisation.

See also

• No one escaped the Soviet Union (overview)

• The destruction of sacred sites and cemeteries in the Soviet Union

• The graveyard as the community's backbone

• The Rakvere old town cemetery

• The Narva German military cemetery

Sources: Rakvere German military cemetery (monument.ee).