War Cemetery - Hanover-Ahlem, Lower Saxony, Germany

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War and Military Cemetery
Hanover-Ahlem, Lower Saxony, Germany

Their name liveth for evermore

The land on which this
cemetery stands is the gift
of the German people for
the perpetual resting
place of the sailors,
soldiers and airmen
who are honoured here. Das Gelände dieses Friedhofes
wurde vom Deutschen Volk
als dauernde Ruhestätte
und als Ehrung für die
gefallenen Seeleute,
Soldaten und Flieger
zur Verfügung gestellt.

Many of the graves in Hanover War Cemetery were brought in from prisoner of war camp cemeteries, small German cemeteries and from isolated positions in the surrounding country.
The cemetery contains 2,407 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 62 of them unidentified. There are also 39 non-war burials and 10 war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.
Hanover War Cemetery adjoins Hanover Military Cemetery, a substantial post war military cemetery of more than 3,000 burials.

Hanover Military Cemetery

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The land on which this cemetery stands is the gift of the German people for the perpetual resting place of the sailors, soldiers and airmen who are honoured here.	Das Gelände dieses Friedhofes wurde vom Deutschen Volk als dauernde Ruhestätte und als Ehrung für die gefallenen Seeleute, Soldaten und Flieger zur Verfügung gestellt.