Vladslo German war cemetery

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Vladslo German war cemetery
German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge)
Image:Crosses, military cemetery, Vladslo, Flanders.JPG Crosses at Vladslo
Used for those deceased 1914-1918
Established	1956 (Concentration cemetery)
Location	51°03′00″N, 2°55′00″E near Diksmuide, Belgium
Total burials	25,644
Burials by nation
Imperial Germany
Burials by war
World War I

Vladslo German war cemetery is about three kilometres north east of Vladslo, near Diksmuide, Belgium. Established during World War I, the cemetery holds 3,233 wartime burials. ^[1] In 1956, burials from many smaller surrounding cemeteries were concentrated in Vladslo, and it now contains the remains of 25,644 soldiers.^[1] Each stone bears the name of twenty soldiers, with just their name, rank, and date of death specified.

The cemetery is administered by the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge). They also look after the three other German war cemeteries in Belgium: Langemark, Menen and Hooglede.

The Grieving Parents

The cemetery also contains a statute - The Grieving Parents^[2] - by Käthe Kollwitz. She was a noted German sculptress^[3] in the 1930s and she made the statute as a tribute to her youngest son, Peter, who was killed in October 1914 and is buried nearby. The eyes on the father-figure gaze on the ninth stone before him, on which his son's name is written.

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The Grieving Parents by Käthe Kollwitz