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    German Military Cemetery, Glencree Ireland

    A couple of Sundays ago I was showing an Italian friend around the Irish countryside and we passed this interesting little cemetery up in the Wicklow mountains. It houses German military dead from both WW1 and WW2. Most of the soldiers are unsurprisingly Kriegsmarine or Luftwaffe personnel but there is also a spy (Dr. Hermann Gortz) buried there. I ran out of memory on my camera so didn't get a huge amount of photos (just 4). The place is very nicely kept and it has a very serene atmosphere (snuggled into a grotto like surrounding with a small stream running past the perimeter). Thought this might be of interest to some of you.


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          Glencree

          A few years ago I was at Glencree and had quite an experience with the groundsman.
          When I went to take a few photographs he lost the plot, and started to rant on about it not being allowed.
          Cheers for the photos .

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            iv past that cemetery a few times! it was a bit funny when my dad went "you know i bet you didnt there is a germany cemetery....in glencree i finished of his sentence for him!! havent been in it but would like to!!

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              Post Ww2 Graves Too?

              So these luftwaffe ones where from 1940,early war years,or later,like where some maybe after the war had finished,like there where no fallschirmjäger ones that you could see maybe?,thanks.

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                Hi Fallshirmjaeger,

                I think the graves are all war time. They are not identified to units or even branches. You simply know Feldwebel = Luftwaffe and Kapitan = Kriegsmarine from an understanding of German ranks. There would be no FJ's here for sure as they did no operations in this part of the world during the war. Ireland was "neutral" and these men were mostly either from floundered U-Boats or Planes that crash landed.

                Hi behblc,

                Sounds like you ran into a groundskeeper willy type character! He sounds a bit daft. Luckily I was there on his day off

                This cemetery is right on the "tourist trail" as there is a very famous Irish pub called "Johnny Foxes" not far away. It was my next stop after the cemetery and very recommended!

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                  Thanks

                  Thanks anyway for that info Des Thomas,i was thinking post war maybe some older FJ comanders may have died,i just like to check if things have a FJ conection sometimes.

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                    Des T
                    Sounds like you ran into a groundskeeper willy type character! He sounds a bit daft. Luckily I was there on his day off
                    If I have time today I will look out photo of Gortz's Grave which as I recall is in to shadow of the hillside.
                    He had made his own tomb stone , a sword , the bade of which was covered in barbed wire.
                    The site of the cemetery was a disused quarry , I may be wrong but I think the war dead were concentrated here in the post war years.

                    The care take - I am sure he has retired by now I was lat there in the late 1980's.
                    Des, daft -you have no idea.
                    When I produced a camera he started to shout at me from across the cemetery , others there stopped to rubber neck the situation as he proceeded to tell me that I was not allowed to take photographs and that a Japanese whiskey firm had attempted to use the cemetrery as a backdrop for a comercial without permission.
                    When I asked him if I look "japanese" or "if my camera and production team of "1" looked like they had arrived with a commercial intention" he told me that it was his job to see it never happened again and threatened me with his boss in Dublin.
                    After a few minutes he lost interest in arguing the toss but I still felt the "evil eye" on me.

                    One of the dead came from a German destroyer which was sunk in Biscay in 1943 ( I can't recall the name at present ) - sunk by some R.N. Cruisers. ( Both sides were searching for a blockade runner attempting to make it to a French port).
                    Poor lad had drifted to Ireland.
                    Over the past few years I have happened on two other war graves from similar circumstances - one a R.N. Petty Officer from HMS Mashoma sunk in the aftermath of the Bismarck episode - his body drifted to Clare Island and a young Canadian officer lost from SS Narissa - sunk of Erich Topp.
                    The Poor lad's body drifted into Donegal Bay and he is buried in an isloated cemetery overlooking Donegal Bay.

                    The Petty Officer's body was buried outside of the local catholic cemetery - as no one knew what religion he was. ( Such was the attitude of the times).
                    When I saw the grave it was overgrown and neglected , the forlorne Commonwealth headstone looking out of place .
                    In recent years the local parish priest and the small Island population rearanged the cemetery wall to bring this poor man "in from the cold" and by all accounts his grave is now kept in good order.
                    In the same cemetery - a small memorial to the crew of a 422 RCAF Sunderland crew which crashed in Clew Bay in May 1943 - they had been trying to make for Castle Archdale.
                    (The crew, those found by local people are buried in Irvinestown Co.Fermanagh).
                    Last edited by behblc; 10-24-2006, 06:51 PM.

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                      great info on war dead in ireland!!!

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                        Dez,
                        Thanks for sharing your visit. Indeed, it does appear to be a very serene setting.

                        behblc,
                        Thank you for the intesting knowledge concering the war dead of both countries that are forever resting in Ireland.

                        Chet
                        Zinc stinks!

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