German War Cemetery Kleve-Dönsbrügger Heide

This German War Cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) rests 2684 dead from World War II. These include German servicemen who died fighting in the Reichswald Forest, some 400 victims of the Allied bombing of Kleve on 7 October 1944, and some 200 foreign forced labourers who died building the Westwall.

At the War Cemetery , there is a chapel in memory of the victims who fell in World War II. The chapel contains all the names of the victims.

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• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Jimmy Hilgen (1, 2, 4), Jos Birx (3, 5)
• - Kriegsgräberstätte: Kleve-Donsbrüggen - Bau, Pflege und Instandsetzung | Volksbund.de