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The biggest surprise about the German military cemetery at La Cambe is its size - it is small (16.5 acres), given that 21,222 German soldiers are buried here. That's much smaller than the American Cemetery at Colville (172.5 acres), which has 9,380 graves.
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14230 La Cambe. +33 0231227076. France Normandie La Cambe. German War Cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) with 21,160 graves. The hill in the middle of the cemetery is a mass grave with 296 casualties. These include buried tank commander Michael Wittmann, known from the battle of Villers-Bocage, and Adolf Diekmann, responsible for the Oradour-sur.
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About Get directions La Cambe , Basse-Normandie , France Coordinates: 49.34193, -1.02656 Cemetery ID: 639129 Members have Contributed 1,475 Memorials 71% photographed 9% with gps About these numbers Photos Added by a2 Added by a2 See 17 more Cemeteries Region Europe France Basse-Normandie Departement du Calvados La Cambe
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La Cambe German war cemetery, one of six German necropoles in Normandy Robert Tischler, chief architect of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (the German military graves maintenance service) designed the 7-hectare La Cambe German war cemetery in the mid 1950s. Here rest German Soldiers - Chapel in entrance building
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La Cambe has a more intriguing and nuanced story to tell. Much of that narrative can be found in its architecture: the cemetery is a telling collection of symbols that speak to German identity, the role of the Nazi era within it, and the politics of memory and victimhood.
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La Cambe is a military war grave cemetery, located close to Bayeux, France. Presently containing in excess of 21,000 German military personnel of World War II, it is maintained and managed by the German War Graves Commission.
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La Cambe is cared for by the privately-funded German War Graves Commission (or Volksbund). They care for 2.6 million graves in 832 cemeteries in 45 countries. Originally a military cemetery for Allies and Axis, the Americans removed their dead for the American cemetery 10 miles away after 1945. This cemetery was dedicated in 1961 to the German.
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La Cambe was originally the site of a battlefield cemetery, established by the United States Army Graves Registration Service during the war, where American and German soldiers, sailors and airmen were buried in two adjacent fields. After the war had ended on the continent and paralleling the work undertaken to repair all the devastation that.
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La Cambe is a Second World War German military war grave cemetery, located close to the American landing beach of Omaha, and 25.5 km (15.8 mi) north west of Bayeux in Normandy, France. It is the largest German war cemetery in Normandy and contains the remains of over 21,200 German military personnel.
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On September 21st 1961, the German military cemetery of La Cambe was inaugurated. 21.222 fallen soldiers are buried here. Their graves call for peace. Today, a Garden of Peace composed of more than 1.000 trees is being created between the cemetery and the motorway. Small tablets beneath the trees will bear the names of the donors.
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The German war graves are intended to remember all groups of war dead: military personnel, those dead by aerial warfare, murdered in the Holocaust, and all other persons persecuted to death. [3]
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La Cambe is a Second World War German military war grave cemetery, located close to the American landing beach of Omaha, and 25.5 km (15.8 mi) north west of Bayeux in Normandy, France. It is the largest German war cemetery in Normandy and contains the remains of over 21,200 German military personnel.
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La Cambe German War Cemetery Visited Add to trip La Cambe was originally the site of an American battlefield cemetery where American and German personnel were buried in two adjacent fields.
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La Cambe is a military cemetery, which is located near Bayeux, France. The cemetery is a memorial site with over 21,000 graves of German soldiers from World War II. Most of the graves date to the period from June 1944 to the end of the same year - and a lot of graves are from the period after the D-day. More about the location!
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La Cambe is a town in Calvados located near Omaha Beach where American troops landed on June 6, 1944, at the end of the Second World War. Today, La Cambe is known for its German military cemetery. Some Normandy Tours include a step in this place, because everyone is a victim of war. German Occupation in France
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La Cambe is a Second World War German military war grave cemetery, located close to the American landing beach of Omaha, and 25.5 km (15.8 mi) north west of.