St. Desir-de-Lisieux German war cemetery

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The German military cemetery in Saint-Désir, or German military cemetery in Saint-Désir-de-Lisieux, is a German military cemetery in Saint-Désir, near Lisieux, Calvados, France. It is the smallest of the German cemeteries in the region. It is adjacent to the British Military Cemetery of Saint-Désir.

The 3,735 buried soldiers were mostly killed during the last battles of the Battle of Normandy and the German retreat in August 1944. The graves have red sandstone steles where the names of four soldiers are listed. Egon Mayer, Horst Hannig (en), Eugen-Ludwig Zweigart and Kurt Ubben (en) are buried there.