German cemetry in Lommel.

Öffne dein Herz der Ehrfurcht vor dem Offer Unseren Toten...

For each cross 2 soldiers.. in total 38.563 ww2 casualties and 542 from ww1.









Little quiz question! Who knows these 3 guys?
Very well known, they where burried in the same order as in their execution...

 

Yes, I would say Skorzeny's commandos dressed as American soldier during the Bulge

 

Correct! Well done guys.
I'll have to say, the location of the graves I got from a friend of mine.

 

Impressive burialground. Very silent (damn whats that other bloody English word?) also. To bad it's across the country for me.

 

The well known pictures of Schmidt, Billing and Pernass.

 

Excellent photos!

 

Pictures like these always bring home the true cost of man's follies.


....solemn, indeed.


Nice pictures, 272VGD - thanks for sharing them.


-whatever

-Lou

EDIT: Just curious...

Were they buried adjacent to each other, or were their graves intermingled with the rest of the cemetary.

 

Thank oyu for posting these Nick. Any Luftwaffe crew grave pictures ?

 

Scarface, they lay next to eachother.

Skipper, didn't look for that sorry... was a few years ago.

 

Great photos, thanx again 272...!

 

Is there any chance that yourself or someone you know would be able to take photos of some of the Luftwaffe Graves in this cemetery, I would be most grateful.

 

Bloody hell that's massive.
I've been to hundreds (?) of war cemeteries but not that one.
Never knew it was that big.
I've been to Neuville-Saint-Vaast German Cemetery which has Great War Dead, 44,830 burials.
It didn't seem as big as Lommel looks.

 

From which graves exactly you want pictures? I'm not from around there but a close friend of my lives overthere in that region... so who knows.

 

Sad to see all of those crosses. I wish that some of the Generals and all of the politicians, could have seen these for what they are-instead of just pins on a map.

 

Alot of them did, in their youth, in the First World War.
That's the sad thing.
Britian & France were trying to avoid another one .

 

Hi Wessex, one of the saddest things about what you say above-is that they (the politicians, that is) had not learned anything from that experiance.

 

Dear 272,

I would like the graves of Kampfgeschwader 30, which there are 16 on my list all killed in 1944, if you can help, I would be very grateful.

 

I can ask a friend of mine, but I don't think the units of those who lay burried overthere are written on there graves, I also do not know if there is a list of this.
But I'll ask my friend to look things over. Give it some time and I will let you know!

PS, those 16 KIA, they all lay burried in Lommel?