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German War Cemetery La Cambe

German War Cemetery (Kriegsgräberstätte) with 21,245 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-Glane massacre.

Opposite the cemetery entrance is an interesting visitor centre of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge.

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Source

  • Text: Fedor de Vries & Lennard Bolijn
  • Photos: Arjan Vrieze (1), Lennard Bolijn (2, 3, 4, 5)
  • update aantal graven bij bezoek 2024 jdj

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