During the Nazi regime, great dignitaries such as Army Chief Werner von Fritz and Inspector General Fritz Todt, who, among other things, behind the German motorway constructions, is buried here.
After the war, the Allies ordered the demolition of all Nazi monuments and tombstones, as did the tombs of Todt and Heydrich. However, it is still possible to find the burial sites themselves, as these were not affected. It was just the monuments. Thus, one can still find quite a few concrete elements when walking around. They are the foundations of the great monuments of Nazi luminaries such as Heydrich.In the 60s after the construction of the Berlin Wall, a third of the cemetery was destroyed when the GDR built watchtowers, etc., along the wall of thecemetery. Approx. 230 graves were desecrated on that occasion.