Ostlandkreuz

After border shifts and population transfers agreed at the Potsdam Conference, German-speakers were expelled from the former Sudetenland areas of Czechoslovakia, from the Former eastern territories of Germany annexed by Poland and the Soviet part of the former Province of East Prussia.

On 24 June 1950 a 20.5-metre-high (67 ft), wooden cross, the Kreuz des Deutschen Ostens, was dedicated on the Uhlenklippen crags near Bad Harzburg in the presence of Ernst Reuter.

Coordinates: 48°36′57″N 9°49′51″E / 48.61583°N 9.83083°E / 48.61583; 9.83083 The wooden "Cross of the German East" (Kreuz des deutschen Ostens) was erected in 1961 on the Bocksberg near the village of Heyersum.

The cross and an altar, both made of concrete, are located on the Hungerberg, a slope on the northern edge of the Rems valley between Winterbach and Schorndorf.

Coordinates: 48°48′34.3″N 9°29′49.2″E / 48.809528°N 9.497000°E / 48.809528; 9.497000 (Ostlandkreuz Winterbach) In the town of Dülken (Viersen district) a cross in memory of the war and German refugees was erected at the cemetery in 1951.