Öffne dein Herz der Ehrfurcht vor dem Offer Unseren Toten...

For each cross 2 soldiers.. in total 38.563 ww2 casualties and 542 from ww1.









Little quiz question! Who knows these 3 guys?
Very well known, they where burried in the same order as in their execution...

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Skorzeny/Steilaus's men?

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Best Regards,
Not Slipdigit

Yes, I would say Skorzeny's commandos dressed as American soldier during the Bulge

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American by birth, TEXAN by the grace of GOD!

Correct! Well done guys.
I'll have to say, the location of the graves I got from a friend of mine.

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Impressive burialground. Very silent (damn whats that other bloody English word?) also. To bad it's across the country for me.

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64 pilots and crew members of bombers lay at Wevelgem communal and still today many locals pay theire respects to those brave men high in the skies.

Solemn?

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The well known pictures of Schmidt, Billing and Pernass.

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Excellent photos!

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

Pictures like these always bring home the true cost of man's follies.


....solemn, indeed.


Nice pictures, 272VGD - thanks for sharing them.


-whatever

-Lou

EDIT: Just curious...

Were they buried adjacent to each other, or were their graves intermingled with the rest of the cemetary.

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5 out of 4 people have difficulty with fractions.

Thank oyu for posting these Nick. Any Luftwaffe crew grave pictures ?

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Scarface, they lay next to eachother.

Skipper, didn't look for that sorry... was a few years ago.

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Great photos, thanx again 272...!

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Is there any chance that yourself or someone you know would be able to take photos of some of the Luftwaffe Graves in this cemetery, I would be most grateful.

Bloody hell that's massive.
I've been to hundreds (?) of war cemeteries but not that one.
Never knew it was that big.
I've been to Neuville-Saint-Vaast German Cemetery which has Great War Dead, 44,830 burials.
It didn't seem as big as Lommel looks.

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From which graves exactly you want pictures? I'm not from around there but a close friend of my lives overthere in that region... so who knows.

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Sad to see all of those crosses. I wish that some of the Generals and all of the politicians, could have seen these for what they are-instead of just pins on a map.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Alot of them did, in their youth, in the First World War.
That's the sad thing.
Britian & France were trying to avoid another one .

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Hi Wessex, one of the saddest things about what you say above-is that they (the politicians, that is) had not learned anything from that experiance.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Dear 272,

I would like the graves of Kampfgeschwader 30, which there are 16 on my list all killed in 1944, if you can help, I would be very grateful.

I can ask a friend of mine, but I don't think the units of those who lay burried overthere are written on there graves, I also do not know if there is a list of this.
But I'll ask my friend to look things over. Give it some time and I will let you know!

PS, those 16 KIA, they all lay burried in Lommel?

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Re: German cemetry in Lommel.

Yes, the 16 Luftwaffe crew members are all buried in Lommel.

I have the grave numbers if this is any help and can send you the list.

Please do so!!!

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