Fever Disaster In Klingnau (b/w photo)

In the Steighaeusliwald near Klingnau in the canton of Aargau, the commemorative cross stands above the mass grave of the three thousand Austrian soldiers who died of Thypus in Switzerland between 1813 and 1814, photographed in October 1967. through Switzerland. The army was not hostile, but pursued the retreating Napoleonic troops. However, thousands of soldiers had been infected with Thypus and had to be cared for in the hospitals of Leuggeren, Bernau and Klingnau. Every fourth Thypus patient died. From February 1914, 30 to 90 dead people had to be driven into the mass grave in the forest every night.