La Cambe German war cemetery

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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 larget German war cemetery in Normandy and contains the remains of 21,222 German military personnel. Initially, American and German dead were buried in adjacent fields but American dead were later disinterred and either returned to the US or re-entered at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, 15 km (9.3 mi) away. After the war over 12,000 German dead were moved from approximately 1,400 field buildings across Normandy to La Cambe. The cemetery is maintained and managed by the voluntary German War Graves Commission.

History: La Cambe was originally the site of a battlefield cemetery created on 10 June 1944 by the 607th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company during the Battle of Normandy. American and German soldiers, sailors and airmen were buried in two adjacent fields. Following the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, the American Battle Monuments Commission began exhuming the memories of American servicemen and transferring them in accordance...