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JosM Says: When entering the cemetary one is encountered with a mass grave, where the remains of about 9000 German soldiers have been gathered.Unlike the British, who wanted their soldiers to be burried on or near the battlefields, the Germans decided to bring together the fallen...
JosM Says: When British students come to Flanders, to visit the battlefields of WWI, they also plant poppy crosses for the German war victims. By doing this, they bring hope that, one time, there may be peace all over the world.
Langemark and it's own sacrifices
Pavlik_NL Says: The citizens of Langemark saw a war pass by. Later they had the constant threat of becoming a warzone itself when the frontline would collapse and shift over their village. Some decided to fight, some decided to help the wounded that were resting in their houses. To remember...
Pavlik_NL Says: The fact that Langemark was more distant from the frontline and the tranches ment that it was not completely destroyed in "fire barrages". Here however another tole took place as hospitals and restrooms showed the fysical and psychological effects of the Great War. Soldiers...
Pavlik_NL Says: In the centre of the village Langemark you see the large church on the central square. The village is in avergae one of the countrysides bigger ones and is as community linked to nearby Poelkapelle. As it was situated in fair distance from the frontline it was not completely...
The German Great War Cemetry (part 3)
Pavlik_NL Says: The entry building is split in two rooms. To the right one is shown the battlefields in Flanders and the frontline stretching out from the North Sea coast to the French sections leading to Switzerland. Here one can read about the battles that kept on leading to senceless and...
The German Great War Cemetry (part 2)
Pavlik_NL Says: At the end of the cemetry a statue is erected, simulating four soldiers paying their respect to the fallen brothers in arms. The stones surrounding the square mass grave have large bronze plates on them that bare the names of the almost 25.000 dead. The atmosphere is grim,...
Pavlik_NL Says: After the first worldwar there were around 678 small cemetries throughout the Flanders regions. Only in Langemark itself there were already 15. In 1920 the belgian warcasual society decided to "gather" all graves and burry them in a few large cemetries. The largest of them...
JosM Says: German cemetery to remember 44.061 soldiers, 3000 of them were cadets or student volunteers - fallen in October 1914 in a vain attempt to conquer Ypres.
Deutsches Soldatenfriedhof Langemark
JosM Says: Opposite the entrance of this German cemetery, one sees four mourning soldiers sculptured by Emil Krieger.
Pavlik_NL Says: Langemark is one of many stops along the "In Flanders Fields" car route. This 82 kilometers long drive through and around Ieper shows all mayor sites that are connected to the fierce battles around here in between 1914 and 1918. It is available through internet on the...
Langemark, a nice Flanders village
Pavlik_NL Says: Langemark had it's suffering but was kept quite up shape. Therefor here one can still see Flanders style houses from centuries ago. The red bricks used to erect stairshaped facades are significant for the whole Lowlands area. On Langemarks village square one can see few of...
The German Great War Cemetry (part 4)
Pavlik_NL Says: In the entrance building of the German Cemetry in Langemark one finds to the right a room with wooden sidings. In the wood the names are scratched of the 10.000's of soldiers that have fallen and are burried here.Let us not add any more ! Ever ...
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Opposite the entrance of this German cemetery, one sees four mourning soldiers sculptured by Emil Krieger.
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Langemark has, in Germany, been famous for it's students' cemetary. By the end of 1914, the Germans made an appeal to all youngsters to go to war to bring it to an end within weeks. The appeal got an...
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Langemark, who's talking about the "bad guys"
Germans are after two worldwars often seen as the "bad guys", but let us never forget that the soldiers fighting on the front are just people like you and me. Almost (well, that's a strange word now)...
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Silent witnesses of the Great War
On our "Battlefield Tour" in Western Flanders we stopped at the dark and sombre Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof in Langemark. Even on this nice and sunny day the cemetary was cold and gloomy.
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I did not see the village, only the German cemetery. Nearly 25000 burials. 15000 'soldiers of the Great War known unto God'. In other words, unidentified, and likely to remain so forever. The many,...
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