If you think it's honorable and beautiful what I do, and you think I'm worth it. Be sure to subscribe to my channel. There are plenty of episodes coming your way!

My Grandfather is buried at this cemetery, he was k.i.a in September '44 in the area around Aachen. Some years ago i visited his grave with my father, a very emotional moment for him, he was 5 years old when the war ends and he had to grow up without a father.

Whenever I visit a military cemetery containing war dead, I always feel sad for the lives cut short, hearts that were broken, and opportunities that will never be. Thank you for this wonderful and thoughtful presentation.

My greatuncle lays on this cementery, Obergrenadier Ludwig Scheid, KIA on the 9. december 1944 in the Hurtgenforrest... He was only 18 years old... I will not forget him. Thanks for making a such a respectfull video about this cementery... I really appreciate it.

I’m the grandson of a British soldier killed in Tunisia in May 1943 fighting the Germans. I’m glad to see this video and the respect with which you have produced it for the fallen of our former enemies.

There is a German Military Cemetery at Cannock Chase Staffordshire in England. It has 5000 graves, mainly Luftwaffe. There are also graves of Zeppelin crews from WW1.

Respect to all soldiers no matter where you were from, RIP.

All were someones son, brother, father doing their duty and deserve respect. They were soldiers, brothers in arms with former enemies. May they rest in peace my brothers in arms.

In France quite near the Swiss border there is a German war cemetery. It has burials from both World Wars. What I found so very striking was on the first World War side were the Stars of David amongst the crosses. In less than a generation how so much changed!

I remember meeting, 60 years ago, two elderly German ladies who lost their sons at Stalingrad. Such a waste. Such sadness.

My father, who was Scottish, was in the British Army from 1939-45. He was in action at the Battle of El Alamein, & in France, & also numerous other locations. He survived the war with shrapnel wounds to his back. His 19year-old brother was killed by a landmine. Until recently I'm sure most of us thought that such insanity belonged in a more barbaric era & that now, in the 21st century, it couldn't happen again. Then along came Putin.

Honour and Peace to the fallen.

I am a retired US Army veteran who has served in Germany and a history lover of all types. I have to admit I have never heard of the Lommel cemetery. Thank you for your wonderful video and presentation.

There is a remarkable and very beautiful german war cemetery nestled in the Wicklow Mountains in ireland. Its the resting place of U-Boatmen & Luftwaffe crews

Wonderful but sad Video, visited Normandy back in 1978 and went also to the German cemetery there. All I could think of all those young men whose lives were cut short. Thank you for remembering and never letting those men to be forgotten.

The German War Graves on Cannock Chase Staffordshire are I believe looked after by the British war Graves Commission on behalf of the Germans and at the end of the second world war every German Soldier / Airman from Both world Wars that were not repatriated to Germany were relocated to Cannock Chase and it is a very somber place when you visit. When myself and Family visited it about 10 years ago a strange thing happened, while walking around looking at the graves a Photo of a Luftwaffe Pilot buried at Cannock Chase seemed t blow to my feet, on the back was a name which led us to his grave, a very strange situation .

Overwhelming sadness when i see all these lives cut short. Doing their duty for their own leader. So young ..

Salutes for those brave German soldiers who fought back bravely and died bravely until the end of the war

My 4 great uncles fought for Germany and all survived and resettled in the US. I served in the US Marine Corps. Interesting how things work out.

Thank you for sharing this. I've often wondered about where some of Germany's dead were laid to rest. 💔 These poor men, gone but not forgotten.

Danke ! Fairer Bericht, ohne Hass.

I visited Europe in 2019 and went to the American cemetary on Omaha beach. I really wanted to visit one of the Germany WWII cemetaries but did not have the time. My son lives in Germany and our next trip I am goin to make the time to visit a German cemetary. All of the fallen deserve a respectful resting place, yes there was evil commited by a few but most were just following orders. Thank you for showing this.

I was here at this cemetery of Lommel in April, 1993 and I THANK YOU for this!!! Being from Canada it was an incredible sight to see and most humbling to my very soul.

My wife and I visited WW1 Military cemetery's and Memorials in France 1995. Her uncle was killed in France, near Pannes, 1918. We met several like minded people along the way. We enjoyed this very much. We did visit one German Cemetery in Belleau, France. Somber and fitting, it is beautiful. There are so many cemetery's from both wars, it is good to go and reflect. Good site, good presentation.

While visiting the German cemetery in Foy Belguim, we were yelled at and heckled by passing Belguin farmers. From memory there are 8,000 there, and 3 to a grave. A very somber place.

I watched your video and it brought me to tears as this is very close to my heart and my family, when a soldier dies in battle from whatever side they are no longer enemies they are gods children

I have visited this war grave and your right. It’s very sad to see the boy soldiers buried here. Lots of information in the office with the complete book of names of all who are buried here. Worth a visit.

So many tragic losses on both sides of all conflicts

Thank you for this video. Many years ago I visited some of the WW1 cemeteries in France and Belgium and was moved to tears at the sheer scale of loss of young men who should have had a future. Millions of lives lost because of the madness of a few. It’s lovely to see some are still remembered and flowers are left.

I visited my great uncles grave from WW1 in 2015 with my wife. He is buried in Belgium and was from NZ. So very sad when you visit these places such a waste of life.

So sad! Thanks for sharing! Go to know all these souls were not forgotten.

I love cemeteries, silent, the wind, makes you reflect in what is life, brief, makes you philosophized deeply, obviously if you have important loses you can feel that

This was like a time travel! Thanks a lot for bringing this to us.. May those souls rest in piece. Amen!

More than 30 years ago I was working as a flight instructor at the Palo Alto Airport in California. I had a nice young German student who I was training and this was his first visit to America. One day the German student told me that he had seen the most dreadful thing. While driving on Highway 280 in San Bruno he had noticed multiple signs directing motorists to the Golden Gate National Cemetery. But it got worse. The cemetery was clearly visible from the well traveled highway and he could see that the graves which were all well maintained. I asked the German why he found that objectionable. He replied that it was just another example of the American tendency to glorify war. He said that a military cemetery should be in a remote and forgotten location, out of sight and out of mind. It should not be maintained. Let the weeds take over. To this I said nothing. However I could’ve said that my father was buried there and that he fought to liberate Germany from Hitler. Looking back on it I view the conversation as a missed opportunity. I wish that I’d asked the young guy how he felt about his country’s war dead. Did he have any compassion for them or did he feel that they should just be forgotten?

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that.

Really interesting and very informative 👍

Thankyou, so sad, just subscribed, I live near the Cannock chase, German cemetery in England, and I love the saying on the fallen warrior statue as you enter! War Cemeteries Are The Greatest Preachers Of Peace! Take care! Best wishes from Birmingham UK!

Another great video. This is certainly a place worthwhile to visit.

I think it is a good thing you are doing. You give the subject the respect and reverence it deserves. Thank you!

Thanks for your contribution to history!

Thank you for sharing this. It is a great story.

When my mum came to Italy - she was very ill and had little time left to live - to see her sister a stay with me her only son, she asked me to take her to the war cemetery in Anzio. When we arrived at the US cemetery she knelt down and prayed and said “never forget the sacrifice of these young boys for the liberation of Europe “. Then she asked me to take her to the German cemetery and I asked why, they were the enemy. Mum replied “because those young boys had mothers waiting for their return and they also died doing their duty”

Thanks for the presentation. I did not know this place.

Thanks for the video. It’s ghastly…almost unbearable seeing so many grave markers from a war. It’s just a reminder of how our behavior as human beings can be led astray. So unbelievable, so expensive in lives property. This war as well as all others has an immense number of victims who were not soldiers. When these wars end, comes the hardest part really…keeping the peace.

Mooie reportage met goede uitleg Heb weer genoten

In 2008 I visited the German Soldier cementry on Crete island (first time) that was most visual when I walked up to that hiill and imagined the war zone. Grand dad is missing in SU mom born 1942 suffered „invisibly“. Those sites amaze me.

In 2017, after months of making connections, I was able to visit the grave of Egon Mayer, the German Ace fighter pilot, who had shot down my father's B-17 on November 23, 1942, off the coast of France..The German cemetery was near Saint-Desir-de-Lisieux in Normandy, and was well-kept. At least he had a grave whereas the remains of my father and his crew rest in the waters off Brest. In honor of all those young men, German and American, I placed flowers on Mayer's grave. Earlier I had a reconciliation with his relatives on behalf of both our families.

I am a grandson of a Polish combat veteran and son of a US Army veteran. I have no hatred for the German people and I know the feeling of missing kin who are away due to service to Nation. I however, know not the pain of knowing your kin will never come home.

Beautiful cemetery. Well kept. Great video.

My understanding is even today the remains of soldiers on both sides are being found across the battlefields of Europe. I'd like to think any identifiable remains are returned to surviving family members or properly interned with others in a military cemetery.

3 years ago, I went to Frankfurt, Germany for 2 weeks. I did get the chance to go to the American cemetary in Luxembourg. I walked and read many names...rank...religions...dates....and stood at Pattons grave and took a picture. I said a silent prayer to all the American soldiers burried there. It's kind of surreal and sad at the same time.

I Had no idea this existed. Gosh, these numbers are staggering. Thanks for sharing.

Outstanding video!

This is utterly stunning. Thank you

I found this very interesting and informative. One day when I make it back to Europe, I'll definitely visit a couple of German cemeteries for fallen soldiers. Thank you for sharing your experience.

Thank you for your respectful and interesting video ! I often think about all those wasted lives, for nothing. All those young men who had have no chance to lived their lives. Thanks also to everyone who at least, gives them a worthy resting place.

Well done Sir... Much RESPECT in your presentation.. Merry Christmas from NORCAL USA!

Very good information thanks

thanks for posting this video respect all

When my career Army Dad was stationed in Germany we travelled to some of the areas he had fought at during WW2, among them some cemeteries like this. My standout memory though is having visited a WW1 battlefield in 1960 that was from WW1. You could not walk about in the battlefield for fear of unexploded ordnance which littered the area, but I seem to recall there was an observation platform. The guide said if you used binoculars and saw what looked like light colored rocks that it was likely pieces of bones. There was a display of sorts said to contain the bones and skulls of some 200, 000 unidentified soldiers. I was only six, so my memory may be faulty, but thats what I remember. Also some place where a trench or dugout had collapsed on troops which were standing erect waiting to attack and their bayonets sticking up out of the ground became their grave markers.

Nice work my friend .

Greetings from Canada. When I was 21, I made a trip to Normandy and to see part of history and try and understand the magnitude of what took place there. I visited many cemeteries. I remember, for unknown soldiers, I saw many crosses marked with "Known only unto God". This was a very interesting video. Thanks.

Great video, ty. I have visited this cemetery on two occasions, both times I left feeling numb - such a waste of life. As you say, just doing their job. In contrast to the amount of fallen here, my Grandfather is laid to rest just an hours drive away in Heesbeen, Netherlands. A lone commonwealth war grave in a small local church yard just a few hundred yards from where he fell. He was laid to rest within hours. A shame so many in Lommel were re located - but now in their final resting place, and in company. RIP

I honestly think that you're doing a very good job of presenting this. I'm a veteran and I have studied history, however I don't think that everything is taught as it should be. I have had relatives who served in World War 2, and inspired me to serve as well. I also love studying history especially in that particular time period. I believe that all those who served, regardless of which side they fought on should be honored and respected!

Thank you very much for the information! I'm from Texas, my father's grandparents, imagrated from the Saxon region of Germany during the 1880's to America. His grandfather was German and his grandmother was Austrian, his grandfather was named Christopher Hartman. His grandfather and his brother, got in the Nebraska land rush and where farmers. Then, when the Oklahoma land rush started, his grandfather, Christopher Hartman, came there and got started with land and was a farmer, on the north side of Wolf Creek, just north of Shattock, Oklahoma. My great uncle Walter Hartman, fought in WW1 - with the Texas Oklahoma 90th Division in and around the Muess - Argonne region during the war. My grandmother was Edith Mae Hartman, she was the baby of the family. She lived in Shattock Oklahoma, her whole life! I loved them very much and was able to spend a lot of time around them as a child. They passed away in the 1980's and are buried there in Shattock Oklahoma, right beside each other! War is a tremendous waste of life and I wonder if humans will ever learn to get past this way of settling things. God Speed to all of humanity!

It’s a shame we couldn’t give our fellow man this much respect when he was alive , god bless.

Thanks for creating.

Very interesting and impressive. Thank you for teaching that to our knowledge. Greetings from the south of Chile.👏👍👏👍

I thought that La Cambe was the biggest- I will visit this one eventually, some day. My ancestors fought in WW1 and my dad in WW2, so a pilgrimage to Belgium is a "must do".

fantastic video

There is a cemetary in Copenhagen, Denmark with the graves of 4636 German soldiers and 4019 civilian German refuges. I’ve been there a number of times and it has a very special atmosphere. Some headstones have up to six names ingraved and many of them are children, those are hard to watch.

You're a great history teacher

very moving and noble video...

Very well done at some point in time I would like to go there and pay my respects

Great video again! Dindt knew aswell that this was bigger then Ysselsteyn + a beautifull crypt!

Thank you for remembering our Loved Ones.

Was familiar with the one in Ysselsteyn, been there twice myself. Just the vast areal and seemingly endless amount of headstones of these regularly misjudged victims of war gets to me every time. ( most likely because of my distant German ancestory. Also found some entries with the same surname at the name registry at Ysselsteyn. ) Thank you for enlightening me about this cemetery.

Greetings from Pennsylvania USA. I'm new to your channel. Thank you for your work. Ever see the American Cemeteries in Europe? Staggering

What a terrible was of young lives. Very sad. Good post, thank you.

I once knew a person who'd lost a close relative from both sides from england and germany...

My extended family lost 10 men in ww1, 5 I have found and paid my respects where the lay buried or are remembered . 3 of them brothers, paternal cousins to my paternal grandfather . My great grandfather a Boer and ww1 war veteran was injured at 3rd Ypres and made it home . I have been all over Belgium and northern France in 21 visits since 2005 going again this August . have paid respects in the German war cemetery's, all somebody's son, dad , n uncle, grandson, not all bad . "Remember the Germans" Harry Patch the last fighting Tommy of ww1 .

thank you for this!

May they All Rest in Peace. Thank you for sharing. War is Sad . What a waste of human lives and pets too. ✝️❤️🕊️😔🥲

Just came across your channel, love your videos and I am a history fanatic. Study in college.

Their "Resting Place " looks So Cold & devoid of any Love . Unlike the Allied War Graves where a cousin of mine Resides - Vevey

Hi Visiting History. Nice but sad video. Sad those cemeteries aren’t better cared for

Great tour! Wish you could have gotten a good close up photo of the statue on top of the New Centered Memorial! The original one is beautiful! Thank you do you have, or know of, a collection of short videos or photos of the statues dedicated to the fallen German soldiers of WW I and WW II?

Thank you for sharing. Such a unbelievable tragedy with all these young men, sons. fathers, brothers, cousins, etc across Europe had to sacrifice their lives for the ruling elite.

Thank you for share. Hope all they are now in peace.

Many of these men can be counted among the victims of Hitler’s madness. I was a small child at the time, so my memories are limited. Seeing the thousands of graves always reminds me of my good fortune to have lived a long and prosperous life.

A generation destroyed. Incredibly sad.

I was stationed in Germany with the 3rd armored division from 1972-74. I spoke to many German veterans from WW2, and although defeated, these men still had a military bering about them, and were proud to have worn a German uniform. They all despised the regime, but did their duty as Deutsche Soldaten.

Many cemeteries in Germany have a special field, some bigger, some smaller, for buried soldiers - German or foreigners, known or unknown - who lost their lifes during one of the two world wars. So there are not only big wide fields where bigger battles happened…

There is a couple of war cemeteries on the Greek island of Crete. The German cemetery contains the bodies of the German Paratroopers killed there. I visited it in the company of two young German lads, who spent their holidays touring around in an old German Kubelwagen, in the footsteps of the German Army. Both of them dressed in German uniform of the period and one of them showed me photographs of his Grandfather in full SS Dress uniform, taken at the Nuremberg rallies. These were 10"x 8" black and white photos. He had been killed at the Battle of Kursk and his body was never recovered. I thought they were a little eccentric but otherwise seemed like nice, ordinary people. One was a tiler, the other with the photos of his Grandfather was an architect. Apparently they had to tow the Kubelwagen on a trailer, covered with a tarpaulin, over the German border, before they could uncover it and drive around in it. The Kubelwagen still had all the original insignia from 9th SS Division if I remember correctly. I pointed out to them that driving around Crete in German uniforms, in a Kubelwagen was not the wisest decision one could make, given the history of German troops there but they seem unconcerned. Incidentally, one of the gardeners at the German cemetery had been involved in the abduction and transport of the German, Lt.General Kreipe from Crete to Egypt. A couple of books and a film have been made about that operation for anyone interested. Walking around the cemetery and seeing the ages of the interred was very poignant. Some of them only 18 with all their lives in front of them, snatched away in an instant. Now Putin doing the same thing. Utter madness.

I agree with your sentiments...so I've subscribed.

Thank you for the great video. I would like to see more videos on veterans.

The largest WOII-German cemetery in the world is Ysselstein in the Netherlands. It's size is 28 hectares and holds 31.813 graves.

I agree fully with you about the lost sons and soldiers. I do have a question: years ago i have visited a cemetery outside Anzio of which many were young. Is it still there 🤔??

Very Sad! ... Much Respect!

Good bro see you next video ♥️♥️✅