The Haguenau national cemetery
La nécropole nationale d’Haguenau. © ECPAD
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A former garrison cemetery created in 1896 by the German army, the Haguenau national cemetery holds the bodies of soldiers who died during the three conflicts that opposed France and Germany on Alsatian soil. It was then successively developed from 1914 to 1919 and then during the 1930s in order to bring together the bodies exhumed from the military cemeteries of the Haguenau-Brumath region, La Petite-Pierre, Haguenau-Brumath and the Woerth region. From 1955 onwards, they were joined by bodies exhumed in the Bas-Rhin, then in 1976 those of Soviet prisoners initially buried in Alsace.
It includes ten graves of soldiers who died during the war of 1870-1871. As a result of the First World War, next to the 91 French soldiers lie 475 Romanians, 122 Russians and one Briton. As a result of the Second World War, 536 Soviets including 493 in ossuaries, 358 Frenchmen, a Pole and a Belgian are buried there, as well as seven British pilots who died during the night of 24-25 April 1944 when their bomber crashed over Soufflenheim. A commemorative plaque was unveiled in this village in May 2014.
Nearby, a German military plot containing 188 graves was also created.
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