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Saint-Désir-de-Lisieux German war cemetery

It is the smallest German war ccemetery in Normandyand contains the remains of 3,735 members of German military personnel. The cemetery was established by the British Graves Registration Commission in August 1944. The British and German victims were buried in adjacent fields.

Saint-Désir-de-Lisieuxis generally chosen as the cemetery for German war dead recently discovered in Normandy. The cemetery is maintained and managed by the German Voluntary War Graves Commission ( Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge ).
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