German military cemetery of Marigny

See also: Marigny

The German military cemetery of Marigny is a cemetery where rest 11.619 German soldiers fallen during the Bataille from Normandy. This cemetery is located close to the village of Marigny, in the department of the Manche, to 12 km in the west of Saint-Lo, but it is administratively on the commune of Vault-in-To judge It.

In 1957, the service of maintenance of the German military burials, the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge , transferred the skins from German soldiers who were before in many small cemeteries of the area or in isolated tombs. The site had been used into 1944 of place as burial for front American soldiers, who enters 1945 and 1946, the whole of the American skins are not transferred towards the large military cemetery from Saint-Laurent-on-Sea, in front of the beach of Omaha Beach. In 1958, the Volksbund started the alteration work. The cemetery is divided into five blocks of tombs aligned and surrounded by slope. Ceramics plates carry the name, the rank and the birth dates and of death of 2 soldiers. Groups of cross are disseminated at equal distance on these blocks. The cemetery is girdled by a stone wall with a building of entry built in the style of the churches of the area. The cemetery was inaugurated on September 20th, 1961.

The communes of Marigny, the Vault To judge some and the communes surrounding were in the narrow corridor of the allied preliminary attack of the Opération Cobra, corridor which undergoes a massive air raid at the end of July 1944, involving an extremely significant number in human losses in the German army.

Other German cemeteries in Normandy

Cambe
Orglandes
Saint-Desire of Lisieux
Mount-to-Huisnes
Champigny-Saint-Andre

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