Ysselsteyn

Ysselsteyn

Infobox Military Cemetery
name=Ysselsteyn German war cemetery
body= German War Graves Commission
"Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge".


caption=
use_dates=1939-1945
established=1947
designer=
coordinates= coord|51|29|00|N|5|54|00|E|
nearest_town= Venray, Netherlands
total= 31,598
unknowns=
commemorated=
by_country=Germany and German Hiwis (many Hiwis from Georgia)
by_war=World War I (around 100) World War II
source=

: "There is also a municipality called IJsselstein (same pronunciation), in the province of Utrecht, the Netherlands".

Ysselsteyn is a small village in the municipality and a town of Venray in Limburg, Netherlands. Nearby, occupying 70 acres (26 hectares), is the largest war cemetery, containing 31,598 graves.

German war cemetery

Ysselsteyn German war cemetery contains the graves of nearly 32,000 German soldiers who died in the Netherlands during the Second World War. It is now the only German war cemetery in the Netherlands as after World War II all German fatalities were concentrated there. It is administered by the German War Graves Commission, the "Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge".

Ysselsteyn Gallery

ources and links

* [http://www.paulcornelissen.nl/Ysselsteyn-cemetery.htm Cornelissen cemeteries page]


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