List of war cemeteries
The list of war cemeteries includes war cemeteries for fallen soldiers, soldiers who died in hospital or prisoners of war, perished forced laborers, bomb victims and other war victims worldwide. It does not claim to be complete.
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Afghanistan
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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British Cemetery Kabul | Kabul | 150 graves of British soldiers from the 19th century. |
Egypt
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El Alamein Military Cemetery | el-Alamein | 7,240 graves of Commonwealth members of World War II (815 unnamed). In addition, 102 graves of other nationalities. | |
German war cemetery El Alamein | el-Alamein | 4213 German casualties of World War II and 30 dead of the First World War . | |
Heliopolis War Cemetery | Heliopolis , Cairo | 1788 Fallen in World War II from the Commonwealth. |
Albania
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German military cemetery Tirana | Tirana | 56 graves of German soldiers from the Second World War. |
Algeria
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Bone War Cemetery | 5 km west of Annaba on the N 44 towards Constantine | 854 graves (18 unnamed) of Allied soldiers from World War II | |
Dely Ibrahim War Cemetery | 10 km southwest of Algiers on the road towards Blida | 564 graves of Allied soldiers from World War II |
Argentina
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Cementerio de la Chacarita | Buenos Aires | One grave of a Commonwealth soldier from the First World War and eleven graves from the Second World War. In the German part of the cemetery lies the grave of Hans Langsdorff , captain of the German armored ship Admiral Graf Spee . |
Armenia
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Abovyan POW Cemetery | Abovyan | 97 graves of prisoners of war in Nagorno-Karabakh . |
Azerbaijan
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Baku Prisoner of War Cemetery | Baku | Graves of around 80 prisoners of war. | |
Chanlar I prisoner of war cemetery | Goygol | Graves of 909 prisoners of war, 546 of them Germans | |
Chanlar II prisoner of war cemetery | Goygol | German Graves of 51 prisoners of war | |
Daschkesan prisoner of war cemetery | Goygol | German Graves of 17 prisoners of war | |
Dshafarchan prisoner of war cemetery | Dshafarchan | German Graves of 237 prisoners of war | |
Gjandsha I prisoner of war cemetery | Gjandsha | German Graves of 160 prisoners of war | |
Gjandsha II prisoner of war cemetery | Gjandsha | German Graves of 240 prisoners of war | |
Mingetschaur prisoner of war cemetery | Mingetschaur | German Graves of 1,126 prisoners of war | |
Sumgait prisoner of war cemetery | Sumgait | German Graves of 311 prisoners of war |
Australia
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Perth War Cemetery and Annex | Perth | 16 graves of Commonwealth members of the First, 475 of the Second World War. In a separate part 7 graves of Dutch soldiers. | |
Wagga Wagga War Cemetery | Wagga Wagga | 82 graves of Australian Army and Air Force personnel from World War II. |
Bahamas
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Nassau War Cemetery | Nassau (Bahamas) . Close to Farrington Road in the Oakesfield District of Nassau | 60 graves of Commonwealth soldiers from WWI and WWII . |
Bangladesh
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Chittagong Commonwealth War Cemetery | Chittagong |
Belgium
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Recogne-Bastogne German War Cemetery | Recogne near Bastogne | German military cemetery from World War II with 6,804 members of the Wehrmacht . | |
Koelberg military cemetery | Geluwe | A small German war cemetery from World War I , repealed in 1958. | |
US military cemetery Henri-Chapelle | Henri-Chapelle | 7,989 fallen soldiers from the Second World War lie in the cemetery. | |
Hooglede German War Cemetery | Hooglede | 8,241 German soldiers who died in the First World War lie here. | |
Langemark German War Cemetery | Langemark | After reburial, today a cemetery for 44,324 German soldiers of the First World War. | |
Poelkapelle British Cemetery | Langemark-Poel Chapel | 7,478 soldiers of the British Commonwealth troops from the First World War lie here. | |
German military cemetery in Lommel | Lommel | 39,000 German soldiers were buried here, mainly from the Second World War (reburied between 1946 and 1959), including 542 from the First World War. | |
Fort Loncin | Liege | Many of the dead were never recovered. The fort is itself a war cemetery today. | |
German military cemetery in Menen | Men | Around 48,000 fallen German soldiers of the First World War were reburied here. A total of 232 cemeteries were closed. | |
St. Symphorien Military Cemetery | Mons | 513 fallen German and Allied soldiers from the First World War rest here. | |
Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial | Neupré , district of Neuville-en-Condroz | Cemetery for 5,328 American soldiers who died here in World War II. | |
German military cemetery Vladslo | Vladslo | Here are the graves of 25,644 German soldiers from the First World War (reburied between 1956 and 1958). | |
Sanctuary Wood Cemetery | Ypres | There are about 637 graves of allied soldiers of the First World War. |
Brazil
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Gamboa British Cemetery | Rio de Janeiro , Gamboa district in the Zona Central | There are eight graves of British soldiers from the First World War and four graves from the Second World War. |
Bulgaria
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Goce Delcev Military Cemetery | Goze Delchev | There are 180 German soldiers of the Second World War here. | |
Marino Pole War Cemetery | Marino Pole | 353 dead in World War II | |
Petric Military Cemetery | Petritsch | Inside the city cemetery, 111 dead in World War 2 and 60 dead in World War 1 | |
Pleven Military Cemetery | Pleven | 16 dead in the 1st and 4 dead in the 2nd World War | |
Sandanski Military Cemetery | Sandanski | 35 soldiers of the 1st World War | |
Sofia German War Cemetery | Sofia | 278 soldiers from World War I and 64 soldiers from World War II. Here are panels for all German soldiers who died in Bulgaria. | |
Varna war cemetery | Varna | 81 soldiers from WWII and a memorial plaque for the crew of a sunk submarine |
Chile
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La Beneficencia Cemetery | Arica | Here is the grave of a British seaman from World War II. |
People's Republic of China
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Dalian Russian War Cemetery | Dalian | More than 20,000 Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of northeast China from Japanese occupation are buried in the cemetery. |
Republic of China
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Republic of China Military Cemetery | Taipei | Graves of 9,236 Chinese National Soldiers. |
Denmark
14,900 refugees and 10,250 soldiers from Germany who died in Denmark were initially buried in 475 cemeteries. Your permanent right of rest is secured by an agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of Denmark of October 3, 1962. To ensure care, some of the German war dead were reburied and are now in 35 cemeteries.
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Esbjerg war cemetery | Esbjerg , Kirkegaard Fourfeld Gravlund municipal cemetery | WWII war graves of Allied soldiers, German soldiers and 151 refugees | |
German war cemetery Copenhagen Bispebjerg | Copenhagen , Bispebjerg | Here are the graves of 594 refugees and 370 soldiers from the Second World War from Germany. | |
German War Cemetery Copenhagen West (Vestre Kirkegård) | Copenhagen , Vestre Kirkegård | Here are the graves of almost 10,000 refugees and soldiers from the Second World War from Germany. | |
German war cemetery Oksbøl | Oksbøl (Varde Kommune) , 15 kilometers northwest of Esbjerg on the west coast of Denmark | Cemetery for 121 soldiers and 1,675 refugees who died in the Oksbøl refugee camp during and after the Second World War . |
Germany
See also: Soviet war cemeteries in Germany
Baden-Württemberg
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Birnau concentration camp cemetery | Northeast of the Birnau pilgrimage church | Concentration camp cemetery for 97 concentration camp prisoners from different nations from the Aufkirch concentration camp near Überlingen | |
German war cemetery Meersburg-Lerchenberg | On the Höhenweg between Meersburg and Hagnau | War cemetery for 69 German soldiers of the First World War who died of their injuries during the exchange of seriously wounded German prisoners of war for seriously wounded French and English prisoners of war via neutral Switzerland | |
Obermarchtal military cemetery | Obermarchtal , Alb-Donau district | Strangers' cemetery and military cemetery from the end of the 18th century, the First World War and the Second World War. Resting place of French soldiers. |
Bavaria
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Dachau Leitenberg concentration camp cemetery | Etzenhausen district of Dachau | Individual graves of 7,609 concentration camp prisoners | |
Holzhausen concentration camp cemetery | Holzhausen near Buchloe, Igling community | Post-war cemetery for Jewish concentration camp prisoners and displaced persons | |
Waldfriedhof (Munich) | Munich | 3,542 war dead, including 343 foreign soldiers from 18 nations | |
War cemetery bomb victims Würzburg main cemetery | Würzburg , left in front of the main entrance to the Würzburg main cemetery | 3000 of 5000 bomb victims in a mass grave | |
St. Georgen war cemetery (Bayreuth) | Bayreuth district St. Georgen (Bayreuth) | 992 war dead: soldiers and bomb victims in the Allied air raids in April 1945 | |
Allied military cemetery Moosrain | near Moosrain, Gmund am Tegernsee , on the B 472 | Royal Air Force soldiers Great Britain, New Zealand, Canada, Australia | |
War cemetery in Neumarkt / Upper Palatinate | Neumarkt idOPf. | 5,049 dead, prisoners of war and forced laborers mostly from Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia and Romania |
Berlin
There are 220 burial sites in Berlin with 120,000 graves and 150,000 dead.
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Columbiadamm cemetery | Berlin - Neukölln | Berlin's highest number of graves of victims of war and tyranny | |
Lilienthalstrasse cemetery (Berlin) | Berlin-Neukölln | Fallen soldiers of the Wehrmacht, collective graves for bomb victims and other civilian war victims. 4,935 war victims in individual graves, countless war victims in collective graves. | |
Wilsnacker Strasse cemetery for the victims of war and tyranny | Berlin , district Moabit | 300 people who died violently in April / May 1945 | |
British cemetery on Heerstrasse | Berlin , Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district on the south side of Heerstrasse (Berlin) | 3,576 individual graves. Soldiers and deceased prisoners of war from Great Britain, Canada, other Commonwealth countries and Poland | |
Rittberg Hospital # grave complex | Berlin , Lichterfelde-West | 12 victims of war and violence through suicide or malnutrition in April 1945. Because of the chaos of the war, they could only be buried at the hospital | |
Soviet Memorial (Schönholzer Heide) | Berlin-Pankow | 13,200 war graves of the Soviet soldiers who died in the Battle of Berlin in March / April 1945 | |
Soviet Memorial (Tiergarten) | Berlin , Mitte district, Tiergarten district | Memorial and graves of 2,000 fallen Red Army soldiers in the battle for Berlin | |
Soviet memorial in Treptower Park | Berlin , Treptower Park | 7,000 war graves of the Soviet soldiers who died in the Battle of Berlin | |
Altglienicke municipal cemetery | Berlin, Treptow-Köpenick district , Altglienicke | 1,360 victims of National Socialist violence in a collective grave, as well as some soldiers' graves from the First World War | |
Plötzensee cemetery | Berlin, Plötzensee | Since 2001 pure war cemetery with 5000 victims of war and tyranny. (Previously part of a regular cemetery) 3600 of them in collective graves. | |
Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde | Berlin, Steglitz-Zehlendorf district , Lichterfelde | A war cemetery for victims of the 1st World War with 64 graves and several fields with a total of 2089 victims of the 2nd World War |
Brandenburg
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Altlandsberg cemetery | Altlandsberg | Community grave for fallen soldiers in the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Soviet Cemetery of Honor (Baruth / Mark) | Baruth / Mark | Graves from 1299 Soviet soldiers who died in the battle for the cauldron of Halbe | |
Bruchmühle Cemetery | Curd mill | Community grave for fallen soldiers from the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Buschdorf cemetery | Buschdorf | Community grave for fallen soldiers from the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Erkner cemetery | Erkner | In the city cemetery there is a cemetery with soldiers' graves as well as for the victims of the Allied air raid on March 8, 1944. | |
Gronenfelde war cemetery | Frankfurt (Oder) | The restored former prisoner of war cemetery from the First World War is located in the district of Gronenfelde. | |
Fredersdorf cemetery | Fredersdorf | Community grave for fallen soldiers from the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Evangelical cemetery Fredersdorf-Süd | Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf | Community grave for fallen soldiers from the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Forest cemetery Halbe | half | Among the 28,000 buried dead are those who fell in the Halbe cauldron , deserters, forced laborers and several thousand people who perished in the Soviet special camp in Ketschendorf . | |
Krummensee church cemetery | Krummensee | Community grave for fallen soldiers in the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Old Küstrin-Kietz cemetery | Küstrin-Kietz | Community grave for fallen soldiers in the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Müncheberg forest cemetery | Müncheberg | Community grave for fallen soldiers from the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Münchehofe church cemetery | Münchehofe | Community grave for fallen soldiers in the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Neuburxdorf military cemetery | Neuburxdorf | War cemetery for the dead prisoners of war of the main camp IV B established by the Wehrmacht | |
Neulietzegöricke cemetery | Neulietzegöricke | Community grave for fallen soldiers from the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Ortwig cemetery | Ortwig | Community grave for fallen soldiers in the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Podelzig cemetery | Podgy | Community grave for fallen soldiers from the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Rehfeld cemetery | Rehfeld | Community grave for fallen soldiers in the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Friedensaue Schöneiche cemetery | Beautiful oak | Community grave for fallen soldiers in the last weeks of the war in 1945 | |
Schöneiche forest cemetery | Beautiful oak | Common grave for seven Schöneich students who were victims of the Allied air raid on March 8, 1944 on Erkner | |
Spremberg Cemetery | Spremberg | The cemetery houses both a German and a Soviet war cemetery. | |
Woltersdorf cemetery | Woltersdorf | Two war cemeteries for victims of the First and Second World Wars | |
Zechin cemetery | Zechin | Community grave for fallen soldiers and civilian victims of the last weeks of the war in 1945 - including the local pastor Heinrich Strohbach | |
Zehrensdorf Indian Cemetery | Zehrensdorf | Community grave facility for 206 Indian soldiers who died in captivity |
Bremen
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Osterholz cemetery | Bremen | Fields of honor, among other things, for Dutch war victims. | |
Bremen-Walle | Bremen | 465 victims from World War I and 145 victims from World War II | |
Bremerhaven-Geestemünde cemetery | Bremerhaven | 18 victims from World War I and 360 victims from World War II | |
Bremerhaven cemetery in Wulsdorf | Bremerhaven | 800 victims from World War I and 200 from World War II | |
Bremerhaven-Lehe III cemetery | Bremerhaven | 154 victims from World War I and 228 from World War II |
Hamburg
There are several war graves in Hamburg's cemeteries, including those for bomb victims from the Second World War.
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War cemetery bomb victims Hamburg-Ohlsdorf | Hamburg-Ohlsdorf . Near the eastern entrance to the cemetery (Bramfeld, Bramfelder Chaussee) near chapel 13. The individual graveyard for bomb victims is near chapel 10. | Collective grave of the victims of the Hamburg firestorm . | |
German war cemetery Hamburg-Ohlsdorf | Hamburg-Ohlsdorf . The graves of the German soldiers are in the middle of the west-east course of the cemetery on Ida-Ehre-Allee (formerly: Krieger-Ehrenallee) near Chapel 9. | The German war cemeteries of the First and Second World War adjoin each other. | |
Hamburg Cemetery | Hamburg-Ohlsdorf , on the large park cemetery Ohlsdorf near Chapel 12 | War cemetery with 676 soldiers ' graves from the First World War and 1,889 soldiers' graves from the Second World War, which was established by and is looked after by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). | |
Dutch war cemetery in Hamburg | Hamburg-Ohlsdorf . Ehrenfeld in the Netherlands is near the eastern entrance to the cemetery (Bramfeld, Bramfelder Chaussee) and a little further away from Chapel 13. | The Dutch dead from Hamburg and the surrounding area, who died in concentration camps , through Nazi forced labor and during what is known as labor, are buried in the graves | |
Polish war cemetery in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf | Hamburg-Ohlsdorf . The Polish war graves are located near the eastern entrance to the cemetery (Bramfeld, Bramfelder Chaussee) and a little further away from Chapel 13. | Polish war victims who are buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg | |
Soviet war cemetery in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf | Hamburg-Ohlsdorf . Near the northern entrance to the S-Bahn Kornweg, Wellingsbüttler Straße, Kornweg on Linnéstraße and near Chapel 9. | 384 Soviet prisoners of war rest on the cemetery. 140 Soviet female forced laborers who died in a bombing rest on the burial ground near Chapel 13. | |
Altona war cemetery | Hamburg-Altona , Altona cemetery | At the end of the cemetery there are graves around a high cross from the time of the Second World War of soldiers, bomb victims and victims from concentration camps. | |
Soviet war cemetery Hamburg-Bergedorf | Hamburg-Bergedorf . The burial ground is located in the newer part of the cemetery, southeast of August-Bebel-Straße, halfway to Chapel 2. | Resting place for 652 Soviet soldiers and prisoners of war who perished in Neuengamme concentration camp . Near Chapel 1 are graves of war dead, including graves of bomb victims. | |
German war cemetery Hamburg-Bergedorf | Hamburg-Bergedorf , Bergedorf cemetery . On the old part of the Bergedorf cemetery near Chapel 1. | Resting place for German soldiers of the First and Second World War, bomb victims and victims of the tyranny. | |
New Harburg cemetery | In the western part of the cemetery there are 1,707 war graves of bomb victims of World War II, including 471 graves of slave laborers who died in bombings. | ||
Italian war cemetery Hamburg-Öjendorf | Hamburg-Öjendorf . The Italian war cemetery is located in the northern end of the Öjendorf cemetery in cemetery area 204. | Collective cemetery for Northern Germany. Italian nationals who died between the beginning of World War II and April 15, 1946. |
Hesse
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Frankfurt main cemetery | Frankfurt am Main | In Gewann VII there are 1625 graves of soldiers from both world wars as well as graves of Russian and Serbian slave laborers. | |
Westhausen cemetery | Frankfurt am Main | Italian cemetery of honor | |
Soviet war cemetery in Herleshausen | Herleshausen | 1593 dead Soviet prisoners of war known by name, who were used to build the Hersfeld-Berlin autobahn (now A4 ) in 1944/45 and who died of illness and insufficient care. | |
Russian military cemetery Klein-Zimmer | Small rooms | 435 (379) dead Soviet prisoners of war who were buried there from autumn 1941. | |
Wegscheide forest cemetery | Bad Orb | 1430 dead Soviet prisoners of war |
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
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Golm (Usedom) | Usedom . In the eastern part of the island of Usedom in the municipality of Garz near the village of Kamminke close to the German-Polish border. | Golm war cemetery: 6,000 to 10,000 bomb victims (civilians and soldiers) in mass graves. Attack on Swinoujscie on March 12, 1945. | |
Rerik cemetery | Rerik | Italian cemetery of honor |
Lower Saxony
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Barnstorf Jewish Cemetery | Barnstorf | There is a memorial stone for Russian prisoners of war in the Jewish cemetery . | |
Bassum Jewish cemetery | Bassum | There are 9 tombstones for "unknown Russian soldiers" in the Jewish cemetery . The prisoners of war ( World War II ) from the former Soviet Union were buried in 9 collective graves. In 7 of the 9 gravestones for the collective graves, the number of "Russians" is given: 6 or 7 - a total of 44. With two gravestones, the inscription only reads "Unknown Soldiers Russians". | |
Becklingen War Cemetery | Becklingen | Near the village of Wietzendorf in the Bockel district north of Becklingen directly on the B 3 , there are 2,086 British, 140 Canadians, 79 Australians, 38 New Zealanders, 2 South Africans, 1 Greek, 19 Poles, 5 Russians, 2 Yugoslavs and 29 people with unknowns Nationality buried who fell during the Second World War or who perished in captivity. | |
Soviet war cemetery Bergen-Lohheide (Hörsten) | Bergen-Belsen | Around 20,000 former Soviet prisoners of war are buried near Bergen-Lohheide (Hörsten). They died of hunger, typhus, dysentery, typhus and tuberculosis in the Bergen-Belsen camp . | |
Austrian war cemetery in Ritzebüttel | Cuxhaven , Ritzebüttel district in Germany . In the cemetery of the Martins parish . | 51 dead of the Austrian Imperial and Royal Navy lie here , who died in the naval battle off Heligoland in 1864 . | |
Eschershausen | In the old cemetery | ||
Handeloh war sacrifice site | Handeloh | 64 war victims of a concentration camp train rest on the war victims' site of the Handeloh community cemetery. | |
Heidenau war cemetery | Heidenau (North Heath) | 81 war victims of the Second World War rest in two grave fields at the Heidenau municipal cemetery. Forced laborers and inmates of the UNRRA Displaced Persons - Camp Heidenau, including 35 children, mainly from the former Soviet Union and Ukraine. | |
Königsmoor war sacrifice site | Koenigsmoor | 18 war dead from the First and Second World Wars rest in this cemetery. There are 5 Belgian soldiers, 6 Russian soldiers from the First World War, whose names are known, and another 7 unknown Russian soldiers. They all fell victim to labor as prisoners of war in the moor experimental farm. | |
Oderbrück Memorial Cemetery | Oderbrück near Braunlage | On an Upper Harz hiking trail that leads from the B4 over the triangular pile to the Brocken or to Schierke , there is a burial site with 105 graves in which members of the Wehrmacht, the Hitler Youth, the Volkssturm and the Waffen SS as well as Soviet prisoners of war are buried. | |
Jewish cemetery (Oldenburg) | Oldenburg (Oldb) , district Easter castle | At the Jewish cemetery in Oldenburg (Oldb) there is a burial place for a total of 56 people ( prisoners of war and civilians ) from Russia , Ukraine and Poland . A person is of unknown nationality . | |
Quernheim | There is a grave with 27 Russian prisoners of war in the Jewish cemetery . | ||
Sage War Cemetery | Sage (Grossenkneten) | Built and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission , a total of 970 people - mostly members of the Allied Air Force - were buried here. | |
Sandbostel war cemetery | Sandbostel | The mass graves of at least 4,700 Soviet prisoners of war are located on the Sandbostel war cemetery, the former camp cemetery of the Stalag XB Sandbostel prisoner of war camp . Yugoslav, Polish and unknown prisoners of war are buried in individual graves. 2,397 concentration camp prisoners from the Neuengamme concentration camp , who were taken to the Sandbostel reception camp in 1945, are buried on a lawn . | |
Hannover War Cemetery | Seelze | Two British cemeteries in one, a war cemetery and the "Hannover Military Cemetery Limmer" for British Army personnel | |
Syke | In the Jewish cemetery there are two tombstones for "seven unknown Russian prisoners of war" each. 14 prisoners of war from the former Soviet Union who lost their lives between 1941 and 1946 were buried in two collective graves. | ||
Tostedt war cemetery | Tostedt | At the municipal cemetery in Tostedt there is a single double grave of two Polish forced laborers as well as a grave area for 20 German soldiers and five unknown dead. | |
Twist rings | In the Jewish cemetery there is a tombstone for a collective grave from the time of the Second World War (or shortly afterwards) for "Three Russian Prisoners of War " (according to the inscription on the granite tombstone ). | ||
Wichmannsburg war cemetery | Wichmannsburg | There are two war graves in the cemetery of St. George's Church . Three Russian prisoners of war rest in the older one. In the second rest eight Jewish people who died while traveling on the so-called lost train . | |
Wingst war cemetery | Wingst | Soldiers who died in an explosion | |
Schneverdingen-Wintermoor for the war victims | Winter moor | More than 700 victims of war, Nazi tyranny, concentration camp trains, forced laborers and war victims from the Wintermoor Forest Hospital rest in the Wintermoor cemetery. Including 156 victims of two concentration camp trains. |
North Rhine-Westphalia
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Waldfriedhof Aachen | Aachen | 2,455 German and foreign war dead as a result of the First World War are buried in the Ehrenfriedhof, most of whom died as wounded and sick soldiers in the Aachen hospitals and military hospitals. Between 1939 and 1945 another 2,623 registered war dead from the Second World War were buried here. | |
Böddeken military cemetery | Büren | 472 German soldiers who fell in the battle for the Ruhr basin are buried here. | |
Engelskirchen community cemetery | Engelskirchen | 371 dead from the First and Second World War are buried, including over 300 victims of the air raids on Engelskirchen . | |
Lövenich military cemetery | Erkelenz | Second World War. | |
Eversberg Cemetery of Honor | Eversberg near Meschede | 928 fallen soldiers from the Second World War are buried here. | |
Hürtgen war cemetery | Hürtgen , Düren district | 2,997 dead are buried at the Hürtgen war cemetery, 524 of which could not be identified. | |
Niersenberg military cemetery | Kamp-Lintfort | Opened in 1954. 1756 dead in the Second World War. | |
British cemetery of honor in the Reichswald | Kleve | The British Ehrenfriedhof im Reichswald (Reichswald Forest War Cemetery) is the largest war cemetery of the Commonwealth in Germany, it was laid out in the Klever Reichswald. There are 7,672 graves on it. | |
Donsbrüggen war cemetery | Kleve | 2,381 war dead from the Second World War rest here. In addition to fallen soldiers or soldiers who died in hospitals, the bombing raid on Kleve on October 7, 1944 (around 400 dead) and forced laborers from various nations (around 200 dead) are also buried. | |
Südfriedhof Cologne | Cologne | Commonwealth and Italian Cemetery of Honor. | |
Ehrenfriedhof am Großer Berg | Mülheim an der Ruhr | Victims of the First and Second World Wars | |
War cemetery Haus Spital | Muenster | ||
Rheinberg War Cemetery | Rheinberg | ||
Vossenack war cemetery | Vossenack , Düren district | A total of 2,221 fallen soldiers, including 930 unknown dead, were buried at the Vossenack village cemetery. | |
Mariawald Abbey | Heimbach , Düren district | 414 dead in the Second World War, died in the hospital | |
Barmen Cemetery of Honor | Wuppertal | 1225 dead from both world wars rest here. | |
Elberfeld Cemetery of Honor | Wuppertal | 567 killed in the First World War and 20 victims of the Kapp Putsch of 1920 are buried. |
Rhineland-Palatinate
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Bad Bodendorf cemetery of honor | Sinzig - Bad Bodendorf | 1,212 graves, mostly deceased from the nearby Goldene Mile prisoner-of-war camp . | |
Bitburg-Kolmeshöhe war cemetery | Bitburg | The municipal war cemetery Bitburg-Kolmeshöhe in Bitburg comprises around 2,000 graves. | |
French cemetery | Koblenz | Deceased prisoners of war from the Franco-German War 1870/71 | |
War cemetery | Bad Bergzabern | On this memorial cemetery rest 899 victims of the second world war , the southern Palatinate in the highly competitive border area died, and four victims of the first world war . There are also 186 graves of unknown soldiers. A granite cross towers over the entire cemetery. |
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Saarland
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Main cemetery Saarbrücken | Saarbrücken | Graves for the war victims of the Franco-German War 1870/71 and both world wars | |
Ehrenfriedhof Besch | Complaint | Graves for victims of World War II |
Saxony
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Heath cemetery | Dresden | Among other things, the graves of victims of the air raids on Dresden from 13/14 February 1945. | |
Göda war cemetery | Göda , on the northern outskirts | Resting place of 50 German soldiers who fell in the course of the Battle of Bautzen at the end of April 1945. | |
Soviet military cemetery Dippoldiswalde | Dippoldiswalde , on the B 170 | | 100 Soviet military members are buried in a collective grave and 88 individual graves. May 1945 killed in fighting in and around Dippoldiswalde as part of the Red Army's Prague operation . |
Saxony-Anhalt
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War cemeteries Westfriedhof (Magdeburg) | Magdeburg | Graves from the First and Second World War and u. a. a memorial (mass graves, memorial) for the victims of the air raid on Magdeburg on January 16, 1945 and other air raids |
Schleswig-Holstein
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Cemetery of honor at Haddebyer Noor | Fahrdorf . On federal highway 76 directly on Haddebyer Noor . | On an area of 13,000 m², 1,074 war dead rest in five fields. The cemetery of honor was consecrated in 1962. | |
Cemetery of honor for the dead of the Cap Arcona and Thielbek disasters | Haffkrug . Starting from the Haffkrug pier over Bahnhofstrasse, the Haffkrug train station, the cemetery parking lot is located immediately after the motorway exit 15 (Eutin). | The Scharbeutz Cemetery of Honor is the largest of the Cap Arcona cemeteries with 1128 victims. See Cap Arcona (ship, 1927) # Cemeteries around the Bay of Lübeck | |
German war cemetery Vorwerker Friedhof | Lübeck . At the Vorwerker Friedhof on Friedhofsallee , starting point for scattered grave fields: Entrance 2, Chapel 1 | Several grave fields of soldiers of the First and Second World War as well as of bomb victims and displaced persons. | |
Dutch war cemetery in Lübeck | Lübeck . At the Vorwerker Friedhof on Friedhofsallee , from Entrance 3 in Block 37 near the Fackenburger Landgraben . | Dutch dead from Schleswig-Holstein and Berlin who died in concentration camps, as a result of Nazi forced labor, and during what is known as the labor deployment in World War II | |
Soviet war cemetery in Lübeck | Lübeck . At the Vorwerker Friedhof on Friedhofsallee , in the immediate vicinity of Entrance 3 in Block 32 | Soviet war victims of the Second World War in Lübeck | |
Ehrenfriedhof Lübeck | Lübeck . On Travemünder Allee at the intersection of Sandberg / Heiliger-Geist-Kamp and opposite the Burgtorfriedhof | Fallen of the First and Second World War, Lübeck bomb victims of the Second World War | |
Cap Arcona cemetery of honor | Neustadt in Holstein . East of the city center of Neustadt (Holstein) directly on the Bay of Lübeck / Baltic Sea | 621 victims of the sinking of the Cap Arcona and the Thielbek on May 3, 1945 rest here. The dead that washed up after the sinking of the ships near Neustadt were initially buried in individual or mass graves - mostly near the beach. In 1948 the cemetery of honor was created. See Cap Arcona (ship, 1927) # Cemeteries around the Bay of Lübeck |
Thuringia
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Main cemetery in Erfurt | Erfurt | Cemetery with graves from both world wars; including many bomb victims, also from Hamburg and Berlin. There is a Soviet cemetery of honor | |
Hildburghausen war cemetery | Hildburghausen | Graves for dead from both world wars. Cenotaph from 1924 with supplementary panel from 2005. Grave field for bomb victims from February 23, 1945. Graves and memorials for Western Allied and Soviet prisoners of war. |
In Germany there are a total of 760,000 graves of war dead from the Soviet Union.
Eritrea
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Cimitero Italiano di Asmara | Asmara | Italian cemetery with part for fallen soldiers of the Second World War | |
British War Cemetery Asmara | Asmara | 263 graves of British soldiers of the Second World War with section for Muslim (Indian) soldiers | |
Cimitero Militare Italiano degli Eroi | Keren | Graves of Italian soldiers who died in the Battle of Keren | |
Keren War Cemetery | Keren | 406 graves of Allied soldiers who died in the Battle of Keren |
Estonia
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German war cemetery in Narva | Narva (city) | Collection cemetery in the city of Narva on the Narva River in Estonia. About 15,000 war dead of the German Wehrmacht from the end of the Second World War are buried. | [[File: | 200x200px]] |
Finland
Around 15,000 German soldiers fell in Finland, some in areas that Finland had to cede to the Soviet Union in the 1947 peace treaty . In 1959, the remains of German soldiers from central and southern Finland were brought together to Helsinki-Honkanummi and from Lapland and Oulu to Rovaniemi .
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Helsinki-Honkanummi German War Cemetery | In Vantaa , 20 km north of Helsinki center | Six German casualties from the First World War and 371 from the Second World War , including 201 seamen. | |
German war cemetery Helsinki-Hietaniemi | In Hietaniemi Cemetery , Helsinki | Graves of 121 German war dead. | |
Rovaniemi Norvajärvi German War Cemetery | 18 km north of Rovaniemi on the east bank of Lake Norvajärvi | 2,530 fallen German soldiers from the provinces of Lapland and Oulu rest here. |
France
Georgia
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War cemetery | Tqibuli | Graves of 181 prisoners of war. | |
War cemetery | Jvari Pass | Graves of prisoners of war. |
Greece
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Maleme German War Cemetery | Maleme | 4,465 fallen in the airborne battle of Crete (1941) are buried here . The reburial from the scattered graves took place in 1960. | |
Dionyssos-Rapendoza German military cemetery | east of Dionysus , 30 km northeast of Athens | Here is the resting place for around 10,000 German soldiers. The facility was inaugurated in 1975. |
Great Britain
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Argentine Military Cemetery | East Falkland , west of Darwin | 412 graves of Argentine soldiers (112 of them unknown) from the 1982 Falklands War . | |
German war cemetery Cannock Chase | Staffordshire in the Midlands of England | Collective cemetery for 2,143 dead from the First World War and 2,797 dead from the Second World War |
India
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Imphal War Cemetery | Imphal , 10 km from the airport on the Imphal-Dimapur road (Highway 39) | Graves of 1,600 Commonwealth soldiers (138 unnamed) of World War II . | |
Kirkee War Cemetery | Khadki , near Pune | 1,668 graves of World War II Commonwealth soldiers. In addition, 629 unmarked graves of victims from the First World War . |
Indonesia
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Ambon War Cemetery | Island Ambon , in the bay opposite the airport | More than 2,000 graves, mainly by Australians and British, but also by Dutch and others. | |
Jakarta War Cemetery | Jakarta | 954 graves of identified war victims of World War II. |
Ireland
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Glasnevin Cemetery | Dublin | Ireland's largest cemetery with the graves of 208 British forces from both world wars. | |
Grangegorman Military Cemetery | Dublin | 625 graves (3 unidentified) of soldiers from both world wars. |
Israel
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German military cemetery in Nazareth | Nazareth | 261 German soldiers are resting in the cemetery . They fought alongside the Ottoman Empire , which was allied with Germany , and died on the Palestine Front in Palestine and Transjordan . |
Italy
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Anzio British War Cemetery | Anzio | ||
Sacrario Militare di Asiago | Asiago | Ossuary on the outskirts of Asiago with over 54,000 Italian and Austro-Hungarian fallen soldiers of the First World War, of which over 33,000 are unknown. | |
Sacrario Militare dei Caduti d'Oltremare | Bari | Around 40,000 soldiers resting here are unknown. | |
Austrian military cemetery in St. Jakob / Bozen | Bolzano -St. Jacob | Graves of Austrian soldiers from both world wars. | |
Tempio di Cargnacco | Cargnacco district, Pozzuolo del Friuli | On the forecourt there is a war memorial and twelve steles with the names of the Italian divisions and other associations that fought in the Soviet Union and were mostly destroyed there. | |
German war cemetery Cassino | Cassino . The cemetery is three kilometers north of Cassino. | War graves of 20,100 German soldiers, including 3,100 unknown persons who fell in the southern part of mainland Italy south of the Pescara - Terracina line during World War II. | |
Polish war cemetery Monte Cassino | Cassino . The cemetery is at the Montecassino Abbey . | War graves of over 1,000 Polish soldiers who died in the fighting at the abbey. | |
German war cemetery Costermano | Costermano | Central memorial for 21,920 fallen German soldiers from World War II. | |
Cimitera di guerra di Pradis | Clauzetto | War cemetery of fallen Italian, German and Austrian soldiers from the Battle of Pradis. | |
Florence American Cemetery and Memorial | Florence | 4,402 graves of American soldiers from World War II. | |
German military cemetery Futapass | Futapass | With 30,683 dead, it is the largest German military cemetery in Italy. | |
Austro-Hungarian war cemetery Geroli | District of Geroli, Terragnolo | 1970 abandoned military cemetery with around 800 buried Austro-Hungarian soldiers killed in World War I at the foot of Monte Pasubio . Reconstructed in 2014. | |
Sacrario Militare Pian di Salesei | Livinallongo del Col di Lana | Military cemetery of Italian soldiers who died in the fighting on Col di Lana. | |
Sacrario Militare del Monte Grappa | Monte Grappa | Ossuary on the summit of Monte Grappa with over 22,000 Italian and Austro-Hungarian fallen soldiers from the grappa front of the First World War, of which almost 20,000 are unknown. | |
German war cemetery Motta Sant'Anastasia | Motta Sant'Anastasia . The cemetery is at the foot of Mount Etna , on the edge of the Strada provinciale SP13 connecting road from Motta Sant'Anastasia to Misterbianco . | The buried soldiers were wounded from North Africa who died in hospitals in Sicily. In addition, those who died during and after the Allies landed in Sicily in July 1943 in combat operations, such as an aircraft attack on a warship in the port of Messina. Of the 4,561 dead, 451 remained unknown. | |
Sacrario Militare del Montello | The cemetery is located on the eastern edge of the 371 m high Montello west of the Piave in the municipality of Nervesa della Battaglia . | Ossuary with over 9,000 Italian casualties from the Piave battles of World War I. | |
Sicily – Rome American Cemetery and Memorial | At Nettuno | 7861 Graves of American soldiers from World War II. | |
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery | Ortona | The military cemetery at Ortona consists of 1,615 graves; 52 of them with unknown names. Number of graves by nation: Canada 1,375, United Kingdom 169, New Zealand 42, South Africa 16, India 5, Australia 4, other allies 2, completely unknown 2. | |
Ossario del Pasubio | At Passo Pian delle Fugazze , Valli del Pasubio | About 5,000 mostly Italian casualties from the Pasubio front of World War I. | |
Brigata Liguria Italian military cemetery | Pasubio | Former Italian military cemetery of the Liguria Infantry Brigade on Monte Pasubio from the First World War. The 164 individual graves were abandoned in 1928 and 1935, a triumphal arch in Rome built style as a memorial. | |
Pomezia German military cemetery | Pomezia | 27,443 German soldiers rest here. 6,491 of them died in 1944 during the fighting in Operation Shingle near Anzio and Nettuno . German soldiers who had died in southern and central Italy were later buried here. There are 3,700 graves with unknowns. | |
German war cemetery Pordoi | Pordoi Pass , Dolomites | 8,582 killed in the First World War, 849 killed in the Second World War | |
Redipuglia Memorial | District Redipuglia, Fogliano Redipuglia , | Around 100,000 killed in the First World War. | |
Sacrario Militare di Castel Dante | Rovereto | Over 20,000 Italian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers killed in the First World War. | |
Austrian military cemetery in the Sulmona cemetery | Sulmona | 1917–1918 over 450 Austrian prisoners died of the Spanish flu in the prison camp in Sulmona. | |
Nasswand-Toblach military cemetery ( it.Cimitero Monte Piana-Dobbiaco ) |
Toblach | 1259 soldiers of various nationalities from the First World War (1914–1918) rest here. | |
Sacrario Militare del Tonale | Tonale Pass | Ossuary on the Tonale Pass with almost 900 mainly Italian fallen soldiers from the Adamello and Tonale fronts of the First World War. | |
Sangro River War Cemetery | Torino di Sangro | The British war cemetery near Torino di Sangro with 2,542 Commonwealth dead. | |
Venafro French War Cemetery | Venafro | ||
Cimitera di guerra inglese di Forno | Vito d'Asio | Small German military cemetery near Vito d'Asio |
Japan
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Yokohama was cemetery | 9km west Yokohama -Zentrum | There are 1,555 graves of Commonwealth Allied soldiers in the cemetery. |
Canada
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Beechwood Cemetery | Ottawa | National Cemetery of Canada. Soldiers' graves in sections 19, 27, 29 and 103. | |
Notre-Dame Cemetery | Ottawa | Graves of 40 war dead from the First and 75 from the Second World War. |
Latvia
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Riga Brothers Cemetery | Riga | The graves of around 2,000 dead date mainly from the First World War and the Latvian War of Independence . | |
Labina War Cemetery | Demene | 449 known and 27 unknown German and 11 Russian soldiers are buried in the cemetery. The dead come from the First World War. | |
Saldus German military cemetery | Balance | More than 22,000 (2009) German casualties. | |
Valka military cemetery | Valka | In Valka there is a German military cemetery with fallen soldiers from the First World War. According to a notice posted on the street, there are also said to be victims from the period from 1941 to 1944. |
Libya
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Benghazi War Cemetery | at Benghazi | ||
Commonwealth War Cemetery Tobruk | at Tobruk | 2,282 (including 171 unidentified) of the Allied soldiers who died in Libya under Montgomery . | |
German war cemetery Tobruk | at Tobruk | 98% of the German soldiers who died under Rommel in Libya . | |
Knightsbridge War Cemetery | Acroma at Tobruk | 3,651 dead. | |
Tripoli War Cemetery | Tripoli | Graves of British soldiers from World War II |
Luxembourg
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Sandweiler German war cemetery | Sandweiler | The military cemetery with the graves of 10,913 fallen German soldiers from the Second World War and one soldier from the First World War . | |
Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial | Luxembourg-Hamm | There are 5,076 graves on the site. In addition to the US soldiers of World War II, General George S. Patton was also buried here. |
Morocco
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Ben M'Sik European Cemetery | 6km south of the center of Casablanca , between the road to Marrakech and a road called Oulad Zianc | Graves of 38 Commonwealth soldiers (1 unnamed) and 2 of other nationalities. |
Macedonia
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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German war cemetery Prilep | in the city of Prilep in Macedonia on a hill on the edge of the Prilep municipal cemetery | Collective cemetery for the German soldiers who died in Macedonia in World War I and World War II, as well as Bulgarian and Hungarian war dead. |
Montenegro
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German war cemetery Podgorica | Podgorica . On a military site not far from Golubovci Airport. | Graves of 64 German soldiers killed in World War II. |
Myanmar
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Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery | Thanbyuzayat , 64 km south of Mawlamyaing | 2,995 graves of prisoners of war from the Commonwealth, the Netherlands and the USA who were used in the construction of the so-called death railway by the Japanese. |
Namibia
In Namibia there are more than 30 large German war cemeteries that are maintained by the War Graves Commission . There are also sites of the fallen, especially the Herero and Nama .
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Grootfontein German Cemetery | Grootfontein | ||
Swakopmund German Cemetery | Swakopmund | ||
German war cemetery in Koës | Koës | Uprising of the Herero and Nama from 1904 | |
German war graves in the Gibeon British cemetery | Gibeon | ||
German military cemetery on the Seeis | Seeis | ||
German military cemetery on Waterberg | Waterberg | Uprising of the Herero and Nama from 1904 | |
Helmeringhausen war cemetery | Helmeringhausen | ||
Leutwein cemetery | Windhoek | ||
Naulila Cemetery | Outjo | ||
Rhenish Mission Cemetery Okahandja | Okahandja |
New Caledonia
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Bourail New Zealand War Cemetery | Bourail , Collectivité Nouvelle-Calédonie | 246 (4 unnamed) graves of Commonwealth soldiers. |
New Zealand
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Waikumete Cemetery | In Glen Eden, a suburb of Waitakere City | 284 New Zealand victims of the First and Second World Wars | . |
Netherlands
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery | Renkum- Oosterbeek | Graves of 1,759 Allied dead, particularly British, who died in the Battle of Arnhem in 1944 or the following year. | |
Ysselsteyn German military cemetery | Ysselsteyn | The only German military cemetery in the Netherlands with all Germans who died there (31,598). | |
Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial | Margraten | about 8,800 US armed forces killed | |
Russian war cemetery in Leusden | Leusden | 865 soldiers of the Soviet Army, most of them as prisoners of war, forced laborers or members of the Eastern Legions in the Netherlands. | |
Georgian war cemetery Loladze | Texel | 476 Georgian soldiers of the Georgian Legion who tried to conquer the island of Texel towards the end of the war by attacking local armed forces. The uprising was bloodily suppressed.
The battle lasted until May 20, weeks after the Wehrmacht surrendered. |
North Korea
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Revolutionary Heroes Cemetery | Pyongyang | More than 100 graves of fighters against the Japanese occupation (1910–1945). |
Norway
11,500 German soldiers were buried on Norwegian soil during the Second World War, initially in 240 localities. In October 1953 it was decided to merge them into five German military cemeteries.
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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German war cemetery in Bergen-Solheim | Inside the Bergen - Solheim municipal cemetery | 1,061 individual graves and 24 dead in a collective grave. | |
Botn-Rognan German War Cemetery | Two kilometers north of Rognan on the E6 , in the innermost bay of the Saltdalfjord | 2,742 German soldiers' graves. | |
Oslo-Alfaset German War Cemetery | Oslo -Alfaset | 96 Germans from the First and 3,112 from the Second World War rest in the cemetery. | |
German war cemetery Narvik | Inside the municipal cemetery of Narvik above the Rombaksfjord | Graves of 1,474 German dead. | |
Russian war cemetery Tjøtta | Tjøtta | Resting place for 8,000 Russian soldiers. | |
Tjøtta International War Cemetery | Tjøtta | Among others, the victims of the sunk ship Rigel rest here . | |
Commonwealth War Graves section in Tromso Main Cemetery | Tromso | 37 graves (3 unnamed) of Allied soldiers. | |
German military cemetery Trondheim-Havstein | Trondheim , near the Havstein Church | Graves of 2,992 German soldiers killed in World War II. |
Austria
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Commonwealth war cemetery in Klagenfurt | Klagenfurt am Wörthersee | Commonwealth soldiers from World War II . | |
Braunau-Haselbach military cemetery | Braunau am Inn | Around 1500 war dead were buried here between 1915 and 1918. In addition, there are 56 victims of World War II as well as women and men from the Soviet Union who died between 1941 and 1945. | |
Military cemeteries in Freistadt | Free City | ||
Jaunitzbachtal military cemetery | Free City | ||
Kuk military cemetery Pradl | innsbruck | ||
Soviet military cemetery in Perg | Perg | 31 Soviet soldiers are buried here, including at least 9 concentration camp prisoners (Soviet soldiers) from the Ebensee concentration camp. | |
Military cemetery in Mauthausen | 10,845 soldiers from the first and 5,212 war dead from the Second World War are buried in the military cemetery | ||
Neckenmarkt military cemetery | |||
Oberwölbling military cemetery |
Papua New Guinea
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Port Moresby War Cemetery | 18 km north of Port Moresby | 3,824 graves of allied soldiers (699 unidentified) of the Commonwealth from fighting with the Japanese. |
Peru
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British Cemetery, Callao | Callao | The cemetery has existed since 1834. |
Poland
In Poland there are 550 cemeteries with German graves from the First World War, which are under monument protection. A total of around 19,000 grave sites are known to the Volksbund.
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Soviet military cemetery in Warsaw | Warsaw | The cemetery has existed since 1946. 21,668 Soviet officers and soldiers who died in the battle for Warsaw in 1944 and 1945 are buried here. | |
Arys Memorial Cemetery | Orzysz (German: Arys ) | Russian and German casualties in the Battle of Arys on September 7th and 8th, 1914. | |
Jägerhöhe cemetery of honor | Węgorzewo (Angerburg) | Resting place for 344 German and 234 Russian soldiers from the winter battle in Masuria and other battles of the First World War . | |
Soviet military cemetery Kanopkeberg | Węgorzewo (Angerburg) | WWII military cemetery . | |
Wroclaw Italian Military Cemetery | Wroclaw (Wroclaw) | Italian soldiers of the Twelfth Isonzo Battle of World War I who died in a prisoner-of-war camp in Wroclaw. | |
Bydgoszcz French Military Cemetery | Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) | French soldiers of the Franco-Prussian War who died in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bromberg. | |
Lahna Cemetery of Honor | Łyna (Lahna) | 56 soldiers of the German army and 89 soldiers of the Russian army - Battle of Tannenberg (1914) . | |
Lidzbark Warmiński War Cemetery | Lidzbark Warmiński (Heilsberg) | Around 2,800 POWs from the First World War from the German POW camp in Heilsberg were buried here. For the most part, Russian prisoners of war were interned here, as well as a small number of British prisoners of war. | |
Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery | Talusy (Marienburg) | A total of 245 graves of British soldiers. | |
Orlau Memorial Cemetery | Orłowo (Orlau) | 329 soldiers of the German army (57 unknown) and 1,101 soldiers of the Russian army of the Battle of Tannenberg (1914) are buried. | |
Thalussen military cemetery | Talusy (Thalussen) | 79 German and 278 Russian soldiers who died in the great winter battle in Masuria on February 14, 1915 are resting on the site. | |
1st Polish Army Cemetery | Starlings Łysogórki (Alt-Lietzegöricke) | Last resting place for approx. 2000 soldiers of the 1st Polish Army who died during the fighting over the Oder crossing in 1945 | |
Waplitz Cemetery of Honor | Waplewo (Waplitz) | 433 soldiers of the German and 203 soldiers of the Russian army rest here. They died in the Battle of Waplitz on August 28, 1914, an event at the Battle of Tannenberg . | |
Warsaw Italian Military Cemetery | Warsaw | Graves of 898 Italian soldiers from both world wars. |
Central German war cemeteries in Poland
According to the 1989 contracts, ten central bedding cemeteries are being set up in Poland.
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Stare Czarnowo war cemetery | Glinna (Glien) near Stare Czarnowo (Neumark) | 20,000 German war dead in the region. In a separate grave field 2,116 civilian victims from the former Marienburg in West Prussia . Inauguration 2006. | |
German war cemetery Bartossen (Bartosze) | Bartosze near Ełk (Lyck) | 13,824 war dead from East Prussia , inauguration 2003. | |
War Cemetery Gdansk | Gdańsk (Danzig) | Fallen of the world and earlier wars, memorial for the dissolved civil graves, inauguration 2003. | |
Poznan War Cemetery | Poznań-Miłostowo (Poznan) | 14,645 German war dead (as of 2011), inauguration 1994. | |
Nadolice Wielkie war cemetery | Nadolice Wielkie (Groß-Nädlitz) | 12,500 war dead in the Wroclaw region . Park pokoju (Peace Park ) inaugurated in 2002. | |
Laurahütte / Siemianowice war cemetery | Siemianowice Śląskie (Laurahütte) near Katowice | 31,000 German war dead (as of 2011), inauguration 1998. | |
Przemyśl war cemetery | Przemyśl | 5,000 German war dead (as of 2011), inauguration 1992. | |
Puławy war cemetery | Góra Puławska near Puławy | 20,981 German war dead, inauguration 2000. | |
German war cemetery at the Warsaw North municipal cemetery | Warszawa (ul.Wóycickiego) | 340 fallen, inauguration 1991. |
Russia
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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German war cemetery in Baltiysk | Baltiysk (formerly: Pillau) | Resting place of around 20,000 German war dead from the Second World War . Collective cemetery for the war dead in the area of the Fresh Spit and near Pillau. | |
Insterburg German War Cemetery | Chernyakhovsk (formerly: Insterburg) | The resting place of around 9,000 German soldiers who died in the First and Second World Wars . Collective cemetery for Germans who died in the eastern part of East Prussia. | |
German war cemetery Sologubowka | 70 kilometers from Saint Petersburg in Sologubowka (district Lezje) | Collective cemetery for up to 80,000 fallen German soldiers in World War II. | |
German war cemetery Duchowschtschina | Duchovshchina . The cemetery is located 60 kilometers east of Smolensk . | Collective cemetery for German soldiers killed in the Second World War in what was then the central section of the Eastern Front with a capacity of 70,000 graves. | |
Russian war cemetery in Dukhovshchina | Duchovshchina | ||
Kaliningrad war cemetery - collective cemetery | Kaliningrad (formerly: Königsberg) | 4,000 to 5,000 bomb victims and foreign prisoners of war from World War II rest here. Furthermore, after 2001 11,700 war dead from the urban area of Kaliningrad and the surrounding area were put into bed. | |
German war cemetery in Korpowo | |||
German war cemetery Kursk-Besedino | east of Kursk | Collective cemetery for 37,000 (2009) German war dead from the fighting in the Kursk Arch ( Citadel Company ). | |
German war cemetery Rossoschka | 37 kilometers northwest of the city center of Volgograd on the Rossoshka river | Collective cemetery for the fallen in the area from Volgograd to Rostov-on-Don and between Volga and Don . | |
Russian war cemetery Rossoshka | 37 kilometers northwest of the city center of Volgograd on the Rossoshka river | The cemetery was laid out for 3,000 Soviet dead with the support of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge. | |
German war cemetery Rshew | On the P87 road at the entrance to Rzhev on the upper reaches of the Volga | Collective cemetery for (as of 2014) 26,000 German soldiers killed in World War II. | |
German war cemetery at Sebesh | 100 kilometers south of Pskov | Collective cemetery for (as of 2012) 30,000 German soldiers killed in World War II. | |
Churkin Russian Naval Cemetery | Vladivostok | 14 graves each of British and Canadian soldiers. |
Sweden
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Pålsjö krigskyrkogård | Helsingborg , within the Pålsjö kyrkogård | Graves of war dead from different nations: 93 Germans, 36 British, 9 Canadians, 2 Australians. Memorial stone for Polish concentration camp victims. | |
Kviberg Fallen Memorial | At the Kvibergs kyrkogård cemetery , Gothenburg | German soldiers killed in the First and Second World War. The crew of the German submarine U 843, sunk on April 9, 1945, rests here . | |
Östergarn Fallen Memorial | In the cemetery of the church of Östergarn , Gotland island | German fallen soldiers of the First World War. | |
Haparanda | German fallen soldiers of the First World War. | ||
Öckero near Gothenburg | German soldiers killed in the First and Second World War. | ||
German war cemetery Stensholmen (archipelago) | Stensholmen near Fjällbacka | On the Skerry Stensholmen rest twelve German casualties from the First World War, to the six victims of the Battle of Jutland heard Johann Kinau (Gorch Fock) . | |
Stenkyra | One German fallen from the First World War and seven German fallen from the Second World War. | ||
Trelleborg Municipal Cemetery | Trelleborg | Ten German war dead from the First World War and 103 war dead from the Second World War. |
Slovakia
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Kopčany War Cemetery | Kopčany | The Kopčany War Cemetery was established in 1916 near the military hospital for soldiers of the Imperial and Royal Monarchy. | |
Ružinovský cintorín | Ružinov (Bratislava) | Around 960 German soldiers who perished near Bratislava at the end of the Second World War rest in the cemetery. | |
Slavín military cemetery | Bratislava | 6,845 Soviet soldiers rest in the cemetery, next to it is a large memorial. |
Slovenia
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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German war cemetery Tolmin | Tolmin | The German war cemetery Tolmin is located on the Isonzo near the city of Tolmin in Slovenia . 946 German soldiers from the Isonzo battles of World War I rest in it . |
Spain
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Cuacos de Yuste military cemetery | halfway between the village of Cuacos de Yuste and the monastery of San Jerómino de Yuste in the province of Cáceres ( Extremadura ) on the southern flank of the Sierra de Gredos | German casualties in World War I and World War II : 26 soldiers and sailors from the U 39 submarine from World War I and 154 sailors from submarines or other German warships as well as crew members from aircraft that crashed over Spain. |
Spratly Islands
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Vietnamese military cemetery |
South Africa
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Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery | Cape Town- Maitland | 964 graves of Commonwealth members, including 436 from World War I and 528 from World War II. |
South Korea
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United Nations Memorial Cemetery | Busan | The world's only UN cemetery with 2,300 victims of the Korean War . |
Czech Republic
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Wallachian Meserich town cemetery | Valašské Meziříčí | 3,100 war deaths from the Second World War from the North Moravia region . |
Tunisia
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Bordj Cedria military cemetery | Bordj Cedria | 8,562 German soldiers of the Second World War. | |
North Africa American Cemetery | Tunis | 2,841 American soldiers of World War II. |
Turkey
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Turkish and Allied military cemeteries | Gallipoli Peninsula | More than 100,000 killed in the battles for Gallipoli . |
Ukraine
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Cherneve Military Cemetery | Cherneve | Nameless soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian 3rd Army from 1914 and 1915 | |
Ivano-Frankove military cemetery | Ivano-Frankowe | Many nameless soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian 3rd Army from 1914 | |
Kovel City Cemetery | Kovel | Grave complex for those who fell in World War I at the Kowel city cemetery | |
Potelytsch military cemetery | Potelytsch | All the dead from the Lviv area are laid to bed here. So far, more than 13,000 dead have found their final resting place here | |
Schowtanzi military cemetery | Showtanzi | Cemetery for soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army who died in World War I near Shovtanzi, as well as several Russian mass graves. In June 2017 the Shovtanzi military cemetery in Zhovtantsyamy Remenovom near Lemberg, renovated in 1921 on the initiative of the Kaiserschützenbund Tirol, was inaugurated. | |
Hiiche Kaiserjäger Cemetery | Hiiche | Cemetery for the Kaiserjäger of the Austro-Hungarian Army who fell here in the First World War | |
Tatariv-Kreminci cemetery | Tatariv | This grave complex is preserved by the Black Cross Vienna. |
United Kingdom
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Bowmore New Parish Churchyard | Bowmore | 65 British casualties in both world wars, 3 foreigners and 2 civilians. | |
Argentine war cemetery | Darwin , Falkland Islands | Argentinian soldiers killed in the Falklands War . |
United States
Other special features are listed under United States National Cemetery .
designation | Locality | description | photo |
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Arlington National Cemetery | Arlington County , Virginia | The cemetery was established in 1864. 260,000 dead were buried here. | |
Golden Gate National Cemetery | San Bruno , 20 km south of San Francisco | 137,435 graves of fallen Americans (2005). | |
Fredericksburg National Cemetery | Fredericksburg , Virginia | Around 3,300 victims of the Civil War on the side of the Confederate States Army are buried here. | |
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific | Honolulu , 2177 Puowaina Drive | Mostly American victims of the Pacific War are buried here. |
See also
Web links
- Find a Cemetery (Friedhofsuche) of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (English) ( page no longer available )
- Oorlogsgravenstichting (Dutch War Cemeteries in the World) (Dutch)
- Directory of the Volksbund: war cemeteries by name
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ War cemetery: Chanlar I - construction, maintenance and repair | Volksbund.de. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
- ↑ War cemetery: Chanlar II - construction, maintenance and repair | Volksbund.de. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
- ^ Perth War Cemetery and Annex at CWGC
- ↑ http://www.volksbund.de/kriegsgraeberstaette/recogne-bastogne.html
- ↑ http://www.geo.de/reisen/community/tipp/467267/US-Soldatenfriedhof-und-Gedenkstaette-in-Henri-Chapelle-Belgien
- ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, Landesverband Schleswig-Holstein: Refugee cemetery Oksbøl / Denmark
- ^ Allied military cemetery Moosrain
- ↑ Graves of the victims of war and tyranny / State of Berlin. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
- ^ War cemetery: Bremerhaven-Geestemünde - construction, maintenance and repair | Volksbund.de. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
- ↑ War graves in Hamburg. Compilation of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V., Hamburg regional association
- ↑ War graves of numerous nations in the cemetery in Ohlsdorf in Hamburg
- ↑ Janka Holitzka: POW graves in small rooms are given name boards . In: www.echo-online.de. August 7, 2017, accessed December 2019 .
- ↑ Maurice Bonkat: From understanding the incomprehensible. “Name brick project” in Munster. In: Voice & Way, 3/2012, pp. 8–9.
- ↑ Gerd Stolz: Memorials to the naval battle near Heligoland. In: Board letter from the Naval Comradeship and from the seaman's choir Admiral Tegetthoff , June 2009.
- ↑ Dippoldiswalde Ehrenfriedhof on the B 170 , Saxon Memorials Foundation, Documentation Office Dresden, on dokst.de
- ↑ Kay Dohnke: 5 minutes, 50 meters, 50 years. Memory of the Cap Arcona after half a century. In: taz. The daily newspaper, Hamburg edition of May 3, 1995. ( Memento of December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ cwgc.org Asmara War Cemetery
- ↑ cwgc.org Keren War Cemetery
- ↑ http://www.volksbund.de/kriegsgraeberstaette/dionyssos-rapendoza.html
- ↑ Website of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge. Work of the Volksbund and description of the war cemetery in Cassino.
- ↑ Information letter from the German War Graves Commission of 7 June 2011, TFNL11CW.
- ↑ Notre-Dame Cemetery (English WP)
- ↑ List view of the war cemeteries. Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, accessed on May 12, 2014 .
- ^ Bourail New Zealand War Cemetery at CWGC
- ↑ List view, country information when selecting a cemetery
- ↑ Website of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (work of the Volksbund and description of the war cemetery in Kaliningrad - collective cemetery)
- ↑ Rossoschka war cemetery on the website of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V., accessed December 5, 2012.
- ↑ German war cemetery Stensholmen (archipelago)
- ↑ a b c Saying goodbye doesn't mean forgetting ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at wien international.at, accessed on October 8, 2015.
- ^ Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery at CWGC
- ↑ http://www.moesslang.net/lemberg_2017.htm
- ↑ Argentina: War cemetery on the Falkland Islands devastated. Latina-Press, August 1, 2012, accessed June 25, 2016 .