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According to Fastolf's biographer Stephen Cooper, given his family's background Fastolf must have received an appropriate education for the standards of the time. [16] In a court testimony given in France, 1435, [17] he claimed to have visited Jerusalem as a boy, between 1392 and 1393, which must have been in the company of Henry Bolingbroke, later Henry IV. [16]
Südfriedhof is the German name for the South Cemetery in Cologne, Germany. With an area of over 61 hectares, it is the largest cemetery in Cologne. [1] Südfriedhof also has sections for 2,596 Commonwealth war graves from prisoners of war mainly from the First World War. [2] There are also over 1,900 Italian prisoners of war buried here.
Berlin – Charlottenburg, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Friedhof, Burial site of John Rabe and Franz Betz; Berlin – Charlottenburg, British War Cemetery, Heerstraße. Berlin – Lichtenberg, Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde. Burial site of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht. Berlin – Mitte, Invalidenfriedhof.
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 cemeteries, not those removed to individual ...
The symmetrical complex of chapel facilities, crematorium and columbarium blends inconspicuously into the overall picture and is justified to the main north–south axis of the cemetery. Until 1924 the cemetery was enlarged to 63 hectares. During World War II the most recent cemetery extension was made to the present area of 82 hectares.
The cemetery was laid out in 1874 by Josef Durm in the Rintheim district, east of the actual city, after the inner-city Alter Friedhof Karlsruhe in the Oststadt had become too small. The main cemetery has grown from its original size of 15.3 hectares in 1873 to over 34 hectares. The graves of more than 32,000 deceased are currently in the cemetery.
The Berlin 1939–1945 War Cemetery was established in 1945 as a central burial ground for aircrew and prisoners of war who were interred in the Berlin area and in East Germany. [2] There are also 260 burials from the post-war British Occupation Authorities staff, or their relatives. [ 2 ]
Speech at the 1951 Memorial to the Socialists commemorating Rosa Luxemburg, with Honecker, Mielke, and other high-ranking GDR leaders, January 1989. The Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery (German: Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde) is a cemetery in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin.