The Bolimow forest southwest of Warszawa was the scene of battles in both world wars.
In the First World War German and Russian soldiers were fighting each other.
On the way to Halin where we stayed, a small German military cemetery caught my eye.
The grass was cut, but in general this cemetery looked abandoned.
I have visited German military cemeteries from that same war, in France, where the gravestones were easy to read and the cemetery well taken care of by the German authorities.
That specific war ended 90 years ago, but it is clear that only after the Iron Curtain fell, would the Germans have the opportunity to do something with this cemetery.
Most stones are impossible to read.
One stone mentioned that two unknown Russian soldiers were buried there.
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