Originally, the fourth officer, Major Herbert Strobel, was also buried here; his remains were transferred to his homeland on the request of his son.

The officers were sentenced to death by firing squad by a "Flying Tribunal" personally appointed by Hitler in Rimbach and Oberirsen, and executed immediately after the verdict.

The fifth officer, Captain Willi Oskar Bratge, had fallen into American captivity during the capture of the Ludendorff Bridge, thus escaping death.

The properties of the Bruderhofers were taken over by the New Religious Movement Lectorium Rosicrucianum, which opened an administrative and conference center in Birnbach in 2000.

Today, there are still four full-time agricultural enterprises, alongside several local craft businesses, grocery stores, and a publishing house.