According to Tair Behbudov, a historian who studies the fate of German prisoners of war who arrived in Azerbaijan, about 42 thousand German prisoners of war arrived in Baku.

[1] As noted by another historian, Javid Bagirzadeh, the dispatch of the German prisoners of war to Azerbaijan consisted of two stages: the first group of German prisoners of war arrived in the republic in 1944, the second in 1945.

[2] The second group of prisoners of war arrived in the early 1945 from the central regions of Russia.

[3] In particular, in the construction of the Government House, according to Behbudov, about 150 prisoners of war were involved, performing the roles of civil engineers, carpenters, stone cutters, facade craftsmen, etc.

[3] On 22 December 1995, the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Hasan Hasanov, and of Germany, Klaus Kinkel, visited the cemetery laying a wreath at the memorial cross.