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| Keywords: outdoor This is a picture of the Möhnsee Dam near Arnsberg, originally completed in 1913, holding up to 134.5 million cubic metres of water, and its regulating lake underneath. It has a sad history. On the night of 17 May 1943 an RAF squadron released a specially developed “bouncing bomb”, causing catastrophic flooding. More than 1,300 people died: children, women and men, including forced labourers from Ukraine, Poland and Russia, who were ghettoized in camps in the Möhne Valley, as well as civilians from France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Reconstruction of the Möhne Dam started the same month, using forced labourers and prisoners of war in day and night shifts, suffering from malnutrition and insufficient safety, leading to severe accidents and deaths. The Allied Forces aim had been to interrupt the water supply for the Ruhr Valley, though German armaments production was never much affected by the many death caused here. A memorial - as a symbol of peace - was inaugurated here in 2015. This is a picture of the Möhnsee Dam near Arnsberg, originally completed in 1913, holding up to 134.5 million cubic metres of water, and its regulating lake underneath. It has a sad history. On the night of 17 May 1943 an RAF squadron released a specially developed “bouncing bomb”, causing catastrophic flooding. More than 1,300 people died: children, women and men, including forced labourers from Ukraine, Poland and Russia, who were ghettoized in camps in the Möhne Valley, as well as civilians from France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Reconstruction of the Möhne Dam started the same month, using forced labourers and prisoners of war in day and night shifts, suffering from malnutrition and insufficient safety, leading to severe accidents and deaths. The Allied Forces aim had been to interrupt the water supply for the Ruhr Valley, though German armaments production was never much affected by the many death caused here. A memorial - as a symbol of peace - was inaugurated here in 2015. | ||||
