This was the only German cemetery we visited and it is very much more dark and sombre than those of the Commonwealth. Names to the missing are carved in wood inside the entrance area, but the mass grave, physically quite small, for some 32,000 dead is quite chilling. They had been exhumed from many graves around the area after the War. Overall, the land allowed for the German cemeteries is considerably smaller than that of the Allies, so there are sometimes four or five names on a headstone, which are black and laid flat.
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