Guys,
In another thread I mentioned that I would be visiting La Cambe Cemetary and a member asked me to take some photos of the visitors centre. I was at the Centre & Cemetary last Saturday, the weather was poor with plenty of rain and very windy conditions. There were only brief periods when the sun broke through.
The exposition in the visitors centre acts to inform the visitors of the work of the Volksbund and how the war cemetaries were organised in Normandy. It also gives information on their work in maintaining the other German war grave sites throughout Europe (including Glencree in Co. Wicklow, Ireland) There is an interesting section where they decsribe their huge task of identifying and laying to rest the German war dead in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet union (over 350,000 have been recovered in the last 10 years).
A booklet is available about the exposition for €5 which has all the written information that is on display at the centre.
Regrads,
Mark
In another thread I mentioned that I would be visiting La Cambe Cemetary and a member asked me to take some photos of the visitors centre. I was at the Centre & Cemetary last Saturday, the weather was poor with plenty of rain and very windy conditions. There were only brief periods when the sun broke through.
The exposition in the visitors centre acts to inform the visitors of the work of the Volksbund and how the war cemetaries were organised in Normandy. It also gives information on their work in maintaining the other German war grave sites throughout Europe (including Glencree in Co. Wicklow, Ireland) There is an interesting section where they decsribe their huge task of identifying and laying to rest the German war dead in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet union (over 350,000 have been recovered in the last 10 years).
A booklet is available about the exposition for €5 which has all the written information that is on display at the centre.
Regrads,
Mark
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