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Lommel is at present the biggest German War Cemeteries of the Second World War. More than 39.000 dead soldiers (542 of the First World War) have found their last resting-place here. During the fights in Belgium and in West-Germany – near Aachen, in the Hürtgenwald and at the Brückenkopf near Remagen – the American Cemetery-Service also took care of the funeral of German soldiers. At first, the fallen were buried near provisional American cemeteries and than 1946/47 brought to Lommel.

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