Memorial for Polish Soldiers at the Soldiers' Cemetery St. Johann/Wolfsberg

In the autumn of 1944, 303 survivors of the Warsaw Uprising were interned in Stalag XVIII A. They belonged to the Armia Krajowa, the military arm of the Polish underground state under German occupation. The Germans denied them the status of combatants and did not treat them as prisoners of war, but rather as political opponents. In the left front area of the Soldiers' Cemetery St. Johann, there are graves for four of the 303 Polish internees in Wolfsberg. The memorial stone as well as the four gravestones were probably erected around 1945/46 and renovated in 2014 by the Austrian Black Cross. During this renovation, an additional explanatory plaque with an inscription in Polish and German was installed.