In contrast to the nearby American cemetery la cambe recieved only a few visitors....the resting place of over 20,000 soldiers.
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La cambe.
Entrance to the cemetery. -
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A view towards the central mound which dominates the cemetery.Comment
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The central mound , some 800 are buried under it 311 of whom are known , their names are on the plaques which surround its base.Comment
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The nemas of some buried there.Comment
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A randonly photographed grave marker , typical of the thousands which carpet the cemetery.Comment
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A very sombre place, I once walked around at 7 o'clock one morning while out doing early morning photo's and like you said a stark contrast to the US cemetery.Comment
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Perhaps the most well known buried at la cambe and probably the most visited grave in Normandy.Comment
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Wittmann's crew .
A view past Wittmann's grave to the burial mound beyond.
The groups of crosses serve only to divide sections / the rows of graves .Last edited by behblc; 06-05-2007, 10:18 AM.Comment
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A view from the top of the mound looking towards the entrance.Comment
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A view to the left.Comment
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And to the right.Comment
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And directly behind , as is well known the steps up to the top can be an accident waiting to happen in wet weather .
(But no problem on a dry sunny evening).
We visited at about 8.30 pm , apart from two other people the cemetery was empty.
I was last here in the early 90's - the visitors centre is new and contains a photographic dispaly of the work of the German war graves Comission on a world wide basis , the construction of the La cambe cemetery.
It is a mark of the ignorance , immaturity and stupidity that some idiots make the ocasional pro nazi remak in the guest book - the immature hand writing and the poorly drawn swastika's , SS runes are a tribute to their dull wit and inability to appreciate what they have seen or are about to see.Comment
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A view to (5.00pm) from the top.Comment
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Towards "8.00"pm.Comment
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