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War cemeteries and war dead of World War I and II inside of Germany are also documented in these files (895,561 in 2010). Among these are war dead transferred to Germany or persons who died within Germany but only those are registered whose remains were transferred to war cemetery areas within civil
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The Commission spent about 52 million Euro (in 2019). Half of it was used for maintenance of the cemeteries, more than a third to remind what happened and to learn from it, the rest was used to keep the association running. Two-thirds of this sum was financed by members and private donations.
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To guard the memory of the victims of war and violence, to work for peace among all nations and to guarantee dignity of men, are the main goals in the statutes of the German War Graves Commission. All activities of German War Graves Commission must harmonize with these general principles.
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in Europe and North Africa. Its objectives are acquisition, maintenance and care of German war graves; tending to next of kin; youth and educational work; and preservation of the memory to the sacrifices of war and despotism. Former head of the
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The exhumation service documents in a draft manual document for each body of a soldier found at the grave site, the dog tag (if existent), the remaining clothing and other individual belongings, human height, characteristics of
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cemeteries in eastern, central and south-eastern Europe have been reconstructed or rebuilt and about 764,524 bodies have been buried in new graves. Maintenance of German war cemeteries in France is looked after by the
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180 were reconstructed (state: 2011). Cemeteries for prisoners of war cannot all be maintained. So only a selection of prisoner of war cemeteries will serve the memory for those who died in war captivity.
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The commission looks after "832 military cemeteries in 46 countries with about 2.75 million dead" and its work is carried out today by 8,000 honorary and 556 full-time employees. Since the end of the
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On behalf of German Government, the construction, repair and care of German War cemeteries outside of Germany is handled by the Division of Cemetery Construction and Building Maintenance (
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With 46 foreign partner countries bilateral war grave agreements were settled by the year 2019. Requests on foreign war graves in Germany are handled by the German War Graves Commission.
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in German) and last letters. Often withdrawing troops could not bury their casualties. Detailed data on the war dead of World War I were reconstructed by volunteers in digital format.
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in German) can be sent online or as hardcopy to Volksbund (German War Grave Commission) to clarify the unknown fate of a German soldier. As some
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The German War Graves Commission cares for the graves, at 832 cemeteries in 46 countries, of more than 2.7 million persons killed during
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The German War Graves Commission offers an accessible online database of 4.8 million individual names for World Wars I and II.
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One-third was paid by government (war graves outside of Germany) and states (maintenance of some war graves within Germany).
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Der Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. (German War Graves Commission) – Online Gräbersuche (online grave search)
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Satzung des Volksbundes Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, § 3 – Aufgaben und Rechtsgrundlagen (Activities and legal basis)
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United Kingdom (and former overseas Imperial territories Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and South Africa) –
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German War Graves Commission has an online inventory of its cemeteries. Data collected for each cemetery are
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Inventory of German War Grave cemeteries in geographical order (Land=country, Friedhof=name of cemetery)
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The commission searches for war casualties and when found, transfers them to central cemeteries in
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and transferred to other institutions to assist in identifying missing people (for example, by
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First World War grave, of a Jewish soldier, at Laventie German Military Cemetery, France
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Ministère de la Défense, SGA Sépultures de guerre (file of graves of french soldiers)
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Homepage Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (German War Graves Commission)
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Database of fallen Soldiers. Germany Still Locates 40,000 War Casualties a Year.
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Homepage Volksbund Deutscher Kriegsgräberfürsorge (German War Graves Commission)
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was elected President of the organisation in 2016, succeeding SPD politician
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The commission was founded as a private charity on 16 December 1919, as the
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Organisation responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of German war graves
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Gerbéviller German Military Cemetery (Lorraine) (Total burials: 5,462)
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The Great War 1914–1918: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (VDK)
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To locate, maintain, care for German war graves outside of Germany
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Der Name ist entscheidend. Grabnachforschung durch den Volksbund.
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Frieden, Vertrauen und Versöhnung. Reden zum Volkstrauertag 2016.
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Inventory of German War Grave cemeteries in alphabetical order
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International youthcamps/workcamps to work on German wargraves
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Online-Search for War Graves (Volksbund Gräbersuche online)
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cemeteries, not those removed to individual family graves.
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Further in this database persons can be found who died by
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is in close contact with other tracing services, e.g. the
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are still looked after by German War Graves Commission.)
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Service d'entretien des sépultures militaires allemandes
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it: Cimitero militare germanico di Motta Sant'Anastasia
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and more than 800 war cemeteries/memorial sites of the
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under the war graves provisions of Article 225 of the
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Spirit of Remembrance: German Remembrance & Peace
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to make it easier to identify later unknown soldiers.
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Website of the Oorlogsgravenstichting in Netherlands
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e. V.
Kassel
Hesse
Germany
Wolfgang Schneiderhan
volksbund.de
‹See Tfd›
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war graves
Bundeswehr
Wolfgang Schneiderhan
Markus Meckel
President of Germany
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
World War I
World War II
aerial warfare
the Holocaust
Franco-Prussian War
First Schleswig War
Second Schleswig War
Treaty of Versailles
World War I
World War II
Wehrmacht
Konrad Adenauer
Cold War
World War II

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