Memorial for deceased POWs in Malta

From mid-1940, transports of British and French prisoners of war arrived in the Maltatal valley, with Soviet prisoners of war being brought there from late 1941 onwards. They were housed in the Arbeitslager "Brandstatt," a part of the municipality of Malta. They had to perform forced labor at the quarry Koschach, situated about two and a half kilometers away, extracting granite for the planned Reichsautobahn construction. Twenty-one Soviet prisoners of war lost their lives, and they were buried near the Brandstatt chapel close to the camp. In the early 1950s, the Allied Commission placed a memorial stone with a red Soviet star next to the chapel as a tribute to the 21 Russian prisoners of war who had died on-site; their names are unknown.