With the founding of the Reichswerke "Hermann-Göring", more and more people came to the reconstruction area from 1937 onwards. After the start of the war, these were mainly tens of thousands of forced laborers, prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates. The hard work and often inadequate living conditions led to a steadily rising death rate. The construction of a central "foreigners' cemetery" began in the early summer of 1943. Burials mostly took place in individual graves, the grave location was recorded on index cards so that the graves can still be located today. A total of around 4000 victims from more than 15 nations were buried. For maintenance reasons, all individual grave markers were later removed and metal plaques with first names and surnames, dates of birth and death, based on the grave coordinates, were set into the ground instead. In addition to information on the history of the site, there are also five metal books in which all the names of the victims known to date are listed for the first time.
