Liberation Route audio spot in Herkenbosch
At each Liberation Route audio spot, you can listen to a radio play about the impressive experiences of one or more people during the last years of the war. In Herkenbosch, you can listen to the story of how Russian forced labourers were executed in cold blood.
Russian slave labourers executed in cold blood
In October 1944, many Eastern European and Russian prisoners of war and forced labourers were deployed in the Ruhr region to dig German defences to extend the German Westwall. One morning in late September, thousands of poorly dressed forced labourers arrived at Herkenbosch station. In the weeks that follow, a drama unfolds that will remain deeply engraved in the villagers' collective memory
Click here to listen to the recording: 'Russian forced labourers executed in cold blood'