Coordinates: | 53.4167°N 55°W |
Image Plan: | Gresse in LUP.svg |
State: | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
District: | Ludwigslust-Parchim |
Amt: | Boizenburg-Land |
Elevation: | 24 |
Area: | 21.25 |
Postal Code: | 19258 |
Area Code: | 038842 |
Licence: | LWL |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 13 0 76 054 |
Website: | www.amtboizenburgland.de |
Mayor: | Werner Hornbacher |
Gresse is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. During World War II, one of the German death marches of Allied prisoners-of-war passed through the town. Sixty of the prisoners-of-war died at Gresse on 19 April 1945 in a "friendly fire" incident when strafed by a flight of Royal Air Force Hawker Typhoons which mistook them for retreating German soldiers.