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The invasion of Crete in May 1941 was the first major airborne assault in history. Despite their victory, the elite German paratroopers suffered such heavy losses that Adolf Hitler forbade further airborne operations of such large scale for the rest of the war. The memorial was erected at the end of a stone staircase leading to the top of a ...
The Souda Bay War Cemetery is a military cemetery administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at Souda Bay, Crete, Greece.It contains 19 burials from World War I and 731 World War II burials where the body was identified along with another 776 burials of bodies which are unable to be identified (Battle of Crete).
Saint-Désir-de-Lisieux German war cemetery; Marigny German war cemetery fr:Cimetière militaire allemand de Marigny (Total burials: 11,169) Champigny-Saint-André German war cemetery (19,831) Southern France – World War II. Berneuil German war cemetery fr:Cimetière militaire allemand de Berneuil (Total burials: 8,332) Greece. Dionyssos ...
German military cemetery: Consenvoye; German military cemetery: Gobessart; German military cemetery: Hohrod-Bärenstall; German military cemetery: Kahm; German military cemetery: l’Hellenwald; German military cemetery: la Maison Blanche; German military cemetery: la Route de Solesmes and Commonwealth military cemetery: Cambrai East Military ...
Since 1946, when the Belgian government started the construction of the cemetery, all German soldiers from the Second World War who were found on Belgian territory were buried here. Additionally, 483 soldiers from the First World War came from a soldiers' cemetery in Leopoldsburg. As of 2016, a total of 39,108 people was known to be buried here.
This list of cemeteries in Illinois includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
New Jewish Cemetery, Prague – built next to the Olšany Cemetery to alleviate the space problems faced by the Old Jewish Cemetery, it is the burial place of Franz Kafka Vyšehrad cemetery , Prague – the Czech Republic's most important cemetery, it is the burial site for Antonín Dvořák , Alphonse Mucha and Bedřich Smetana , amongst others.
The tholos tomb, located on "Kafkala" hill, was accidentally revealed and then looted at the beginning of the 20th century. During World War II a bomb caused the partial destruction of its roof and the backfill of the chamber. It is a significant funerary monument excavated in 1966 by the curator Mr. C. Davaras and partly restored in 1970.