Prisoner of War Cemetery
at Camp Atterbury

Francisco Tota died on February 28th, 1944 and became the first prisoner to be buried in the Camp Atterbury prisoner of war cemetery. In all there were eighteen prisoners buried at Camp Atterbury, three Italians and fifteen Germans. These prisoners all died of wounds suffered in the war, or illnesses while at Atterbury.   For many years after prisoners of war left Camp Atterbury members of the German-American Society and the Indianapolis Italian-American Club honored these prisoners by decorating their graves with wreaths and firing a twenty-one gun salute. In 1970 the graves were moved to Camp Butler in Springfield, Illinois. The Army did this so the graves could receive better care.

Italian

Umberto Marrollo
Caporall Maggiord
Italian
May 31,1944
Giovanni Trani
Seaman
Italian
April 19, 1944
Francisco Tota
Soldat
Italian
February 28, 1944
German

Walter Kraenke
Obergefreiter
Germany
October 29, 1944
Paul Witt
German
June 23, 1946
Max Kraus
Obergefreiter
German
December 11, 1945
Mathias Bachlechner
Gefreiter
German
May 17, 1945

Heinrich Giere
Obergeireoter
German
February 7, 1945
Heinrich Berghorn
Gefreiter
German
October 28, 1945
Gottfried Fuchs
Obergefreiter
German
November 2, 1944
Franz Thallinger
Gefreiter
German
November 15.1944

Erhard Pfadenhauer
German
September 1, 1945
Emil Burmeister
Soldat
German
January 29, 1945
Augustin Faisst
Soldat
German
July 13, 1945
Andreas Kellner
Gefpeter
German
November 27, 1944

Wolfgang Robasik
Obergefreitner
German
August 19, 1944
Willy Drajesky
Obergefreitner
German
September 1945
Adolf Kandlbinder
Obergefreiter
Infantry
German
December 2, 1945
As the graves now appear at Camp Butler National Cemetery near Springfield, Illinois.  11/24/2002

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Page last revised 12/19/2007