German War Graves In The UK

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@scroggins100 5 ай бұрын

Close to me and the old airfield at North Cotes is the village church. In the graveyard are many young RAF Aircrew who died. Three German graves are also there. Not seperated but together. Its a very moving place and a beautiful church. Fitting really, RIP.

@MH_Workshop 5 ай бұрын

It seems there are a few still left scattered. Possibly crews that could never be properly identified if exhumed

@MrTubbymarshall 5 ай бұрын

Lest we forget. They were all someone’s loved one. God rest their souls. R.I.P.

@angelamary9493 3 ай бұрын

Agree 👍

@davidgenie-ci5zl 15 күн бұрын

Lest we forget, evil nazis that fought for hitler. total scumbags.

@Norsok92 5 ай бұрын

Thank you much for your sensitive and respectful video

@robertdoyle687 10 күн бұрын

Well researched and a very respectful video.

@MH_Workshop 10 күн бұрын

Thankyou

@islander790 4 ай бұрын

I came across this place by chance and spent the afternoon there. It’s very well kept and quite moving

@philw245 5 ай бұрын

There are a number of German war graves in the Worting Road Cemetry in Basingstoke Hampshire.

@KeithCraig-nz6eb 12 күн бұрын

There are also German war graves in Blandford cemetery in Dorset. Some appear to be the crew of a bomber in WW2, others died in 1918, so I guess they were POWs who died of the Spanish Flu.

@davidholman2536 5 ай бұрын

It's a woodland setting. The birds weren't singing when we visited.

@roderickherbert7233 5 ай бұрын

ALL THESE LIVES TAKEN.....ALL WARS ARE FUTILE.....WHAT SORROW IT BRINGS TO THESE FAMILIES.....THEIR LOVE ONES GONE FOREVER......SO SAD....

@JohnSmith-ei2pz 5 ай бұрын

So you feel the RAF should not have defended the UK? Sadly many youngsters were killed defending your right to speak freely. starmer the dictator is trying to stop, free speech, would you fight against communism!

@channel9r 5 ай бұрын

There are three German aircrews buried in Dyce Old Graveyard near Aberdeen.

@MH_Workshop 5 ай бұрын

Interesting thanks

@redtobertshateshandles 5 ай бұрын

We think dad's great uncle is buried in Cornwall. He was an observer in a Dornier shot full of holes. The entire crew died.

@fasthracing 12 күн бұрын

Interesting place. there is an SS General buried there. Karl Wolf (?) or something similar. He was in Himmler's inner circle.

@MH_Workshop 12 күн бұрын

Interesting, didn't realise that

@JAmediaUK 5 ай бұрын

Here is the story of how it came about: An interview with Terry Dix, the day after he received the German Order of Merit for his work with the Cannock War Graves kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXndnYqGj9GsgaM

@MH_Workshop 5 ай бұрын

Will definitely check this out thanks

@JAmediaUK 5 ай бұрын

@@MH_Workshop Terry Dix also started the town twinning with Germany 40 years ago. Sadly, Terry died a month after we did the video, just after his 83rd Birthday.

@MH_Workshop 5 ай бұрын

@@JAmediaUK that's sad but at least you were able to record his story for people to hear

@JAmediaUK 5 ай бұрын

@@MH_Workshop Yes, I am just glad that we got to record it so it is a permanent record. We are working with a lot of old people in town to record their memories from 70-80 years ago to produce a social history of the town as told by the people who lived it.

@MH_Workshop 5 ай бұрын

@@JAmediaUK that's great. There's a lot of stories being lost

@anonahawkins7230 5 ай бұрын

My father told me how there were some German airmen from early in WW2 (I think), who were buried in Great Burstead churchyard, near Billericay in Essex as they had crashed nearby. There used to be a flowering shrub/tree near their graves, which always had beautiful blooms. They later were reburied, in I assume in a German cemetery - and the shrub/tree didn't bloom as beautifully again. It is possible that the roots were disturbed, and my father joined up to fight, so it may have improved much later, but he was not around very often to see. I do not know as Dad stayed on in the Army, leaving in 1969. Oh, and he had noticed that the buttons on their uniforms were made in Birmingham. He knew this as he sewed the same make of button on British uniforms he made as a tailors apprentice!

@c8136132 20 күн бұрын

The RAF don't have "th" squadrons, 111 Sqn is pronounced (one eleven) and not 111th..... so the Hurricanes that shot the BF-110 down were from 56 & 111 squadrons. Great video 👏

@MH_Workshop 20 күн бұрын

Cheers for the correction 👍

@marvwatkins7029 4 ай бұрын

An interesting, unconsidered notion.

@SerenyMor 5 ай бұрын

The saying "To the victor the spoils" is never more true than when you look for German war graves or memorials. Whilst it is right that the Nazi Swastika is never shown many of these, and this cemetery seems no different, feature no national symbol such as the Prussian Cross? I don't feel that is right, they fought for their country so honour them!

@Noname47122 4 ай бұрын

They have decorations,such as the Iron cross, on individual graves. At Sandringham cemetery there was a German empire flag permanently at half mast but I saw that decades ago.

@DH.2016 5 ай бұрын

@ 2:25 Three relatively young guys, all died in November 1945 - 6 months after the end of the war in Europe. What was going on then? Some epidemic?

@MH_Workshop 5 ай бұрын

Could be anything from illness as you say, to a car / plane accident at a guess

@jonb3311 5 ай бұрын

German POWs were not returned home straight after the war ended. Some remained in the UK for several years, for various reasons. Some even chose to make the UK their home. In Orpington, Kent, there is a war 1cemetery of mostly Canadians who passed away up to 5 years after the war ended. They had been patients in the local hospital.

@DH.2016 5 ай бұрын

@@jonb3311 Thanks. I knew about the phased release of POWs (met one in 1966 and Bert Trautmann, goalie for Man City, is a famous example of those who stayed and settled here). It was spotting that 3 of the POWs named on the gravestones in the foreground died 20/11, 21/11 and 29/11/45 that caught my attention. Good point that they may also have succumbed to their wounds.

@JohnSmith-ei2pz 5 ай бұрын

Many people died after the war.......................due to injury..........duh!!!

@redtobertshateshandles 5 ай бұрын

Mum's brother a merchant seaman died of TB in 1946. They wouldn't give them penicillin. Probably the same for the German prisoners. Rot in hell Winston.