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This German Military Cemetery is located at the edge of the D83 (left) linking Harten in St-Remy Blanzy (after passing under D1), this necropolis, built by France in 1921, contains 4,256 body (metal Cross) whith 2,124 in Ossuary. All these soldiers died in 1918 (except: 1 in 1914, 1 in 1915, 2 in 1917 and 3 without dates). We found also there two soldiers who died in 1920, probably prisoners of war: Karl Greindl, who died the 10th of August 1920 and Johann Wurziner, who died the 10th of January 1920.
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Dormans German military cemetery was built between 1921 and 1931. The Marshal Foch chooses the site of Dormans to perpetuate the memory of the second battle of Marne.
The dead monument and the French-American military cemetery with 2,000 German graves, 2,200 French graves and 20 British graves.
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The German cemetery was established in March 1922, consolidating 123 temporary sites, and includes men killed between the Aisne and the Marne in 1918, along with 70 men who died in 1914 in the First Battle of the Marne.From the 4,308 bodies resting in individual tombs, 22 could not be identified. From the 4,322 resting in the 2 boneyards, only 487 could be identified.
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