Found a Polish mass grave in England

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Found a Polish mass grave in England 2017-07-28 08:12:49 Post No. 135314796
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Found a Polish mass grave in England Anonymous 2017-07-28 08:12:49 Post No. 135314796 [Report]

So I know /x/ may be more interested, but I know a lot of /pol/acks are history buffs and know a lot about WW2. I was driving around with a new friend, who lived here a long time and is an amateur historian, and he showed me this; I'll greentext the story.

>Norfolk Mental Asylum created in early 1800s
>In WW2, starting in 1939 and ending in 1945, it becomes a field hospital for Polish soldiers
>After the war's end, Russia invaded Poland, and many Poles here couldn't return
>Many more Poles were suffering PTSD, which wasn't understood back then
>These Poles were kept here until the EIGHTIES, possibly even longer

There is a mass grave for them, which I'll post, along with directions. The north ward, which is being torn down, was used to house them; The hospital scrapped their steel cross headstones in the sixties for change, and it's obvious they were buried nameless, anonymous, with no caskets or embalming fluid

Anonymous 2017-07-28 08:13:35 Post No.135314875
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Anonymous 2017-07-28 08:13:35 Post No.135314875 [Report]

You can go put down some plumbing gear to honor them.

Anonymous 2017-07-28 08:19:33 Post No.135315531
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>>135314796
Mainly posting this to draw attention to it. Probably because they had PTSD, they were seen as dishonorable, and their graves are unmarked. I've tried contacting some Polish veterans groups and the Polish Institute for Remembrance but have no response yet. I came back today, a week later, to get more info and pics.

This is looking north on the graveyard. The crosses that used to be here were scrapped. Source:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4822174

At the foot of the monument is a granite block with a Polish name on it, 1912 to 1997. I can't imagine being here until so recently after WW2.

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And here's the Polish cemetery, crammed between warehouses in an industrial park

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