La Cambe Travel Guide

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The famous Albert Schweizer once said that "graves from soldiers are the best preachers for peace" and how right he was, when you either stand on the German cemetry or on the American, British, Canadian, French, Belgian, Dutch, Russian etc. etc. etc. etc. cemetries. The entrance building of La Cambe German cemetry makes a beautiful statement of peace, yet especially in recent years again many do not want to hear it.
The entrance buildings hold explanations on the cemetry, lists of names and locations as well as some stories about how the battle commenced and the war was lost to let freedom prevail over Europe again ... for how long ...?

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The cemetry near the small village of La Cambe, is the largest in Nomandy. Though the black crosses and dark stones give a rather sad image over the whole (and what would be strange about that, as IT IS a cemetry), the whole of La Cambe cemetry is actually beautiful. Rose bushes, the cimetry of it all, the hill in the middle and green trees on even greener and perfectly mawn grass. The sheer seize of the cemetry is breathtaking, especially when one rises over it by climbing up the central hill. Loosing - even though by some kind of own fault (which is terribly difficult to say anyway) - pays a terrible tol for many individuals that had their own story, their own dreams and their own loved ones that stayed behind.