Recogne German war cemetery, War cemetery in Bastogne, Belgium.
Recogne German War Cemetery lies east of the hamlet of Recogne, south of the road to Foy, near Bastogne. It holds 6,807 German soldiers of the Second World War. Dark grey-brown stone markers, each a low cross on a rectangular base, stand in rows; the nearest bears the inscription "EIN DEUTSCHER SOLDAT" and the name Michael Brooklacher, Gefr., born 17.2.1925, died 1.1.1945. A chapel with a red sandstone tower stands at the entrance.
In February 1945, after the Ardennes Offensive was halted at Bastogne, the Americans began a collective cemetery at Recogne holding some 2,700 American and 3,000 German dead. In 1945–1946 the American remains were moved to Henri-Chapelle, while Belgian authorities reburied German graves from the border region here or at Lommel. The German War Graves Commission took over administration in 1950.
The cemetery is kept by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, which transferred it from Belgian to German administration in 1950. At the entrance stands a chapel with a tower of red sandstone. The dark stone crosses, each inscribed "Ein deutscher Soldat", mark graves of soldiers moved here from across the border region after the war.
The cemetery lies east of the hamlet of Recogne, south of the road to Foy, near Bastogne. It is reached from the Foy road; the entrance has a chapel with a tower of red sandstone. The grounds are maintained by the German War Graves Commission.
Many of those buried here were extremely young, with some soldiers only 17 years old at the time of their death. A significant portion of the burials here resulted from the Ardennes winter offensive.
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