Everything about The Langemark German War Cemetery totally explained
The
Langemark German war cemetery is near the village of
Langemark, part of the
municipality of
Langemark-Poelkapelle, in the
Belgian province of
West Flanders. The village was the scene of the first gas attacks by the German army, marking the beginning of the
Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915.
During the
First Battle of Ypres (
1914) in
World War I, inexperienced
German infantry, among them much volunteer schoolboys only between 16 and 18 years old, suffered severe casualties when they made a futile frontal attack on
British Army positions near Langemark and were checked by experienced French infantry and British riflemen.
The event became known in Germany as "Schlacht von Langemarck" (Slaughter of Langemarck). Legend has it that the German infantry sang the first stanza of what later (1919) became their national anthem "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles," as they charged.
Near the entrance of the graveyard is a mass grave, which contains 24,917 soldiers. Between the oak trees, next to this mass grave, are another 10,143 soldiers. The 3,000 school students who were killed during the
First Battle of Ypres are buried in a third part of the cemetery. At the rear of the cemetery is a sculpture of four mourning figures by Professor
Emil Krieger, said to stand guard over the fallen. The cemetery is maintained by the
German War Graves Commission, the
Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge.
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