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 | In the old town's north-easterly corner lies "God's Acre", as the Moravian churchyard is called.
This is where the congregation's members find their last resting place when their temporal life is over. After the funeral service in the church, where the bier is absent though when the priest reads aloud a summary of the major events of the deceased's life (the "life stories"), the ... |  | 03/22/2008 | 601 | 
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 | This cemetery is also known as Waldfriedhof. It is one of the biggest war cemeteries in Germany, with 22,500 burials.
The cemetery started in 1953 when graves from the surroundings of Halbe were brought together on this place. Still graves were brought to this cemetery, for example 170 graves in 1993.
Most burials are soldiers or members of the so-called Volkssturm... | | 08/31/2009 | 40 |
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 | In order to maintain the graves of German soldiers who were killed in Poland in the Second World War, their graves are brought together from hundreds of locations to 13 large German war cemeteries. This started in 1989 and is not ended yet.
Laurahütte German war cemetery contains 22,860 graves. Ultimately 40,000 graves will be brought here together.
http://www.ww2m... | | 09/24/2009 | 33 |
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 | In order to maintain the graves of German soldiers who were killed in Poland in the Second World War, their graves are brought together from hundreds of locations to 13 large German war cemeteries. This started in 1989 and is not ended yet.
Groß Nädlitz German war cemetery contains 12,500 graves. Ultimately 18,000 graves will be brought here together.
http://www.ww... | | 09/21/2009 | 42 |
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 | File contains all Commonwealth cemeteries with thousands of graves from The Great War in France. Also many churchyards with graves of fallen soldiers are located. For each placemark there is a link with infos from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Churchyards with a few graves aren't showed in this file but can be seen in the enclosed link.
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 | In order to maintain the graves of German soldiers who were killed in Poland in the Second World War, their graves are brought together from hundreds of locations to 13 large German war cemeteries. This started in 1989 and is not ended yet.
Neumark German war cemetery contains 9,600 graves. Ultimately 32,500 graves will be brought here together.
http://www.ww2museu... | | 11/01/2009 | 13 |
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 | File contains all Commonwealth cemeteries with thousands of graves from The Great War in Belgium. Also many churchyards with graves of fallen soldiers are located. For each placemark there is a link with infos from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Churchyards with a few graves aren't showed in this file but can be seen in the enclosed link.
http://www.ww1cem... | | 08/14/2009 | 38 |
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 | File contains all Commonwealth cemeteries with thousands of graves from World War 2 in Belgium. Also some churchyards with graves of fallen soldiers are located. For each placemark there is a link with infos from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Churchyards with a few graves aren't showed in this file but can be seen in the enclosed link in placemarks.
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 | File contains all Commonwealth cemeteries with thousands of graves from World War 2 in France. Also some churchyards with graves of fallen soldiers are located. For each placemark there is a link with infos from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Churchyards with a few graves aren't showed in this file but can be seen in the enclosed link in placemarks.
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 | Cape Town's largest graveyard - covering the entire block and housing thousands and thousands of graves. It contains some of the oldest graves in the area. | | 09/08/2005 | 169 |
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 | The Sandweiler German war cemetery is a World War II cemetery in Sandweiler, in southern Luxembourg. It contains the graves of 10,913 German servicemen from the Battle of the Bulge in winter 1944 and spring 1945. Of these, 5,599 were buried by the American war graves service during the war; American casualties were buried at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial about 1.5 kilometres (0.... | | 08/29/2009 | 26 |
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 | Cliffs near Colleville-Sur-Mer where the 1.US Division landet on D-Day Morning! |  | 03/01/2006 | 1,165 |
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