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Bemærkelsesværdige præster i forhold til
begravelse af allierede flyvere
Avernakø Kirkegård, pastor Edmund Jensen.
Efter flystyrt 16 MAJ
1944 skulle en flyver begraves på kirkegården dagen efter.
En tysk
officer hindrede pastor Edmund Jensen i at deltage i begravelsen, ”da der
var blevet demonstreret”. Tyskerne kunne slet ikke lide, at øens beboere
havde
strøet blomster på vejen. Graveren blev også bortvist.
Se
detaljer i
Historien om Lancaster-bombeflyet LL963.
Estruplund Kirkegård, hjælpepræst C.M. Nielsen.
Ved flystyrt 30 AUG
1944 spredtes sprængte rester af flyet og flyverne over et
stort område
øst for Ingerslev. Tyskerne ville ikke indsamle ligdele, og de
forhindrede også danskerne i at gøre det. Først 19 dage efter styrtet
ændrede de deres beslutning. Så skulle det være nu!
Hjælpepræst C.M.
Nielsen og andre indsamlede ligdele fra markerne, og de gav flyverne en
kristen begravelse.
Detaljer i
Estruplund – flystyrtet,
begravelsen og mere.
Dejbjerg
Kirkegård, pastor Hans Pedersen.
Efter flystyrt 30 AUG 1944 blev
flyverne begravet på nedstyrtningsstedet. Sognepræst Hans Pedersen spurgte
en tysk Hauptmann i Skjern om tilladelse
til at give flyverne en kristen
og anstændig begravelse. Den tyske officer mente at flyverne netop havde
fået den begravelse, der var passende for dem. Meget vred –
og meget
bedrøvet – meddelte sognepræsten derpå, at han på den danske folkekirkes
vegne vil sørge for, at flyverne fik en anstændig begravelse.
Det gjorde
han – og han blev hentet til afhøring nogle dage!
Se detaljer ved flyet
Lancaster LM479.
Idom
Kirkegård, pastor H.H. Frank.
Efter flystyrt 15 OKT 1944 begravede
tyskerne de omkomne flyvere ved et
markhegn. Pastor Frank tog til den
tyske chef, der boede på Hotel Schaumburg
i Holstebro. Han troede, at en
tysk officer ville springe op, slå hælene sammen og sige Jawohl, når en
præst talte hårdt til ham. Det skete ikke. Pastor Frank blev korporligt
smidt ud af kontoret.
Se detaljer i
Beretning fra Evald Sønderby.
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Remarkable Vicars in relation to burials of
Allied airmen
Avernakø Churchyard, Vicar Edmund Jensen.
After an air crash on 16 MAY
1944 an airman was to be buried on the next day.
A German officer
prevented Vicar Edmund Jensen from participating in the burial,
“as
there had been demonstrations.” The Germans were highly displeased that
inhabitants of the island had scattered flowers on the road. Also the
gravedigger
was turned away. See details in
Historien om Lancaster-bombeflyet LL963.
Estruplund Churchyard, Curate C.M. Nielsen.
At an air crash on 30 AUG
1944 and the ensuing explosion parts of the plane
and of the airmen were
scattered over a large area east of Ingerslev. The Germans didn’t want to
collect the body parts, and they also prevented Danes from doing it. They
did not change that decision till 19 days after the crash. Then it had to be
in
a hurry. Curate C.M. Nielsen and others collected the torn bodies in
the fields,
and they gave the airmen a Christian burial.
See details
in
Estruplund – the crash, the burial, and more.
Dejbjerg Churchyard, Vicar Hans Pedersen.
After an air crash on 30 AUG
1944 the airmen were buried at the crash site.
Vicar Hans Pedersen asked
a German captain in Skjern for permission to give
the airmen a Christian
and decent burial. The German officer’s view was that the
RAF airmen had
just had the burial which was
fit for them. Very angry – and very sad – the vicar then announced that on
behalf of the Danish church he would see
to it that the airmen could have
a Christian burial. He did that – and on the
following days he was taken
for interrogation!
See details at the plane
Lancaster LM479.
Idom Churchyard, Vicar H.H. Frank.
After an air crash on 15 OCT
1944 the Germans buried the deceased airmen at a hedgerow. Vicar Frank went
to the German Commander who stayed at Hotel Schaumburg in Holstebro. Frank
thought that a German officer would get up, click his heels, and say Jawohl
when a vicar spoke brusquely to him. That did not
happen. Vicar Frank
was virtually thrown out of the office.
See details in
Account from Evald Sønderby.
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Præster
Vicars Updated:
20 SEP 2021