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Karlsruhe District

Bensheim-Auerbach War Cemetery

Karlsruhe District

Bensheim-Auerbach War Cemetery

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Bensheim-Auerbach War Cemetery

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Location: Bensheim, Kreis Bergstraße, Karlsruhe District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Diana Perez - A .

February 3, 2022

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The war cemetery in Bensheim-Auerbach, popularly known as the military cemetery, is one of the largest of its kind in Hesse. A total of 1961 victims of the Second World War - 1385 German and 576 foreign war dead - found their final resting place here.

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JakobusPilger

March 16, 2026

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At the memorial service held by the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.) on the occasion of the National Day of Mourning in 2009, then-Federal President Horst Köhler …

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Elevation 150 m

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Thursday 16 July

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Location: Bensheim, Kreis Bergstraße, Karlsruhe District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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