La Cambe German war cemetery

La Cambe German war cemetery
German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge)
The German military cemetery in La Cambe
Used for those deceased 1944
Established	1944 (Finished 1961)
Location	49°20′31″N 01°01′35″W / 49.34194°N 1.02639°W / 49.34194; -1.02639 near  Bayeux, Calvados, France
Total burials	21,222
Burials by nation
Germany
Burials by war
World War II
Statistics source: World War II Battlefields

La Cambe is a Second World War German military war grave cemetery, located close to the American landing beach of Omaha, and 25.5 km (15.8 mi) north west of Bayeux in Normandy, France. It is the largest German war cemetery in Normandy and contains the remains of over 21,200 German military personnel. Initially, American and German dead were buried in adjacent fields but American dead were later disinterred and either returned to the US or re-interred at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, 15 km (9.3 mi) away. After the war over 12,000 German dead were moved from approximately 1,400 field burials across Normandy to La Cambe. The cemetery is maintained and managed by the voluntary German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge).