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DirkWi
December 31, 2025
Hiking
47,864 German soldiers are buried here, as is stated on the walls. 47,911 is the number given on the official website.
Be that as it may: an absurd number of young lives, including on the German side, were sacrificed in "the Great War."
A German military cemetery has a very different, somewhat more austere and somber appearance than the many cemeteries managed by the British Commonwealth.
In the building at the entrance, you will find, besides a register of names, information boards about the Flemish battlefields.
Source: kriegsgraeberstaetten.volksbund.de/friedhof/menen
Be that as it may: an absurd number of young lives, including on the German side, were sacrificed in "the Great War."
A German military cemetery has a very different, somewhat more austere and somber appearance than the many cemeteries managed by the British Commonwealth.
In the building at the entrance, you will find, besides a register of names, information boards about the Flemish battlefields.
Source: kriegsgraeberstaetten.volksbund.de/friedhof/menen
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•heck1980
February 5, 2022
Hiking
With around 47,061 graves, the German military cemetery in Menen is the largest of its kind in Belgium. It is the resting place of German soldiers of World War I who fought there, especially in the Battles of Ypres. (from Wikipedia)
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•Johan DM 🇧🇪🚲
March 4, 2024
Cycling
The “Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Menen 1914-1918” is located at the Menen-Wevelgem divide, on Groenestraat and Kruisstraat respectively.
This military cemetery officially contains the graves of 48,049 German soldiers (the number of …
This military cemetery officially contains the graves of 48,049 German soldiers (the number of …
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