Cassino German Military Cemetery, Military cemetery in Caira, Cassino, Italy.

The Cassino German Military Cemetery occupies several elliptical terraces defined by limestone walls and holds more than 20,000 graves. The grounds are arranged across a sloping hillside, with pathways connecting the various sections from the entrance building.

A bilateral agreement signed in December 1955 between the German federal government and Italy provided for a permanent German military cemetery near Cassino for the dead of southern Italy, excluding Sicily. The Volksbund recovered remains in 1959 and 1960 from over 602 small cemeteries and isolated field graves across 21 southern provinces. The cemetery was inaugurated on 4 May 1965.

Each pale grey stone cross carries, on both faces, the names of three dead soldiers with their rank, birth date and death date. The crosses stand in long rows on the terraced, elliptical grave fields, so the inscriptions repeat down the slope.

The site sits about three kilometers north of Cassino town and is straightforward to reach. A wide pathway guides visitors up the slope to the entrance building, where orientation and information are available.

The 11-metre cross on the hilltop is wrought of forged bronze, and behind it lie the mass graves. In 2012 the sculpture "Flamme des Friedens" was added as a symbol of remembrance. Pope Paul VI donated consecrated lamps to the military cemeteries of every nation in the Cassino area, not a personal visit.