Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof

[Terry]

German Military Cemetery at Cannock Chase. This is somewhere I've been meaning to go to for a long time. As with all war graves a very moving place.

 

 

 

 

 

[David]

Very solemn and moving images Terry

[ChrisLumix]

Any one of those shots should feature on the commemorative 50p instead of that stupid Kitchener recruiting poster (totally wrong for the occasion )

[Korky]

I didn't know this place existed - very interesting.

 

Korky

[annie]

Very moving images Terry and nicely taken too. 

[Denis]

Very sobering and also a place I would like to visit. There is a distinct contrast between the dazzling white stones of a commonwealth War Graves cemetery and the stark black iron crosses of the German graves in France. The headstones here look a little more civilised.

 

I know of two German airmen who still lay with their Messerschmitt  Me110 deep below the ground in Essex. They will never be recovered for a normal burial.

[Terry]

Three more images from the German War Cemetery

 

One of the 5 unknown from 1914-1918 war

 

Note the date that Julius Broschard Died. It was not until I processed the shot that I saw it

 

 

 

 

[NannyFerret]

The thing that some people forget is that these were just ordinary soldiers and not the Gestapo, and they were someone's sons, boyfriends or husbands the same as our soldiers that died in the war.

A very fitting tribute, Terry.

[GrahamNfk]

Brings a lump to your throat. I'm disappointed at myself for never considering the war dead from both sides

[ChrisLumix]

Brings a lump to your throat. I'm disappointed at myself for never considering the war dead from both sides

 

We get brainwashed. I remember a certain Maggie who exploded at the Archbishop of Canterbury for daring to remember the Argentine as well as the British dead at the Falklands memorial ("rejoice") service.

[NannyFerret]

Two young German prisoners of war were very kind to my brothers when they were children and got caught in a storm.
They were working not far from our house and took my brothers to their fire and got them warm and dry.
My mum being the caring person that she was then, took the POWs some cigarettes which she got with her tokens as she didn't smoke and to say thank you for their kindness.
I only learnt recently that she could have been tried for treason if she had been caught, but she said that they were somones young sons and they had shown her sons kindness, so she showed these young men kindness in return as they were somones young sons too.
I still respect my mum and dad, even though  they are with us anymore, because they brought me up to be the person that I am.