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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).
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Today, Kandanos has been rebuilt and is the seat of the eponymous municipality. Reproductions of the sombre Wehrmacht signposts commemorating the destruction of the village are displayed on a local war memorial. [11] On 31 October 2024, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Kandanos. He asked for forgiveness on behalf of Germany for ...
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 ...
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.
On May 20, 1941, thousands of elite German paratroopers, the Fallschirmjäger, assaulted the island of Crete. [2] It was the beginning of one of the largest paratrooper assaults in modern history, ultimately involving 22,040 German soldiers. [3] It was also the first time German troops faced a unified resistance from a civilian populace. [4]