German field graves in the monastery garden of Moerdijk.
The soldiers who were killed on the Brabant side of the Moerdijk bridgehead were initially buried in the monastery garden at Moerdijk. These included both Dutch and German servicemen. However, no photographs of Dutch field graves in the monastery garden are known to the author. Several photographs do exist of the German field graves in the garden, some of which are shown below.
The German graves were later relocated to the German section of the municipal cemetery in Dordrecht. The Dutch graves remained in place for a long time and were eventually moved, in most cases, to the Roman Catholic cemetery in Moerdijk.
1. German paratrooper graves in the monastery garden in Moerdijk during the Second World War.
2. Hauptmann Fritz Prager at the field graves of German paratroopers in the monastery garden of Moerdijk.
3. Several more field graves of German paratroopers in the monastery garden of Moerdijk.
4. The war grave of Leutnant Dietrich Lemm in the monastery garden of Moerdijk.
5. The memorial stone for the fallen of the 2nd Battalion of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 1 in the monastery garden of Moerdijk.
6. German field graves in the monastery garden of Moerdijk in May 1940.
7. German field graves in the monastery garden of Moerdijk in May 1940.