Ysselsteyn German war cemetery

Ysselsteyn war cemetery
German War Graves Commission Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge.
Cemetery Ysselsteyn
Used for those deceased 1939–1945
Established	1946
Location	51°28′08″N 5°53′27″E / 51.46889°N 5.89083°E / 51.46889; 5.89083 near  Venray, Netherlands
Total burials	31,813
Unknowns	appr. 4,000
Burials by nation
Germany and Nazi Hiwis; Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Georgia, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Roumania,
Burials by war
World War I (87); World War II (31,000); postwar appr. 500

Ysselsteyn German War Cemetery is a military cemetery interring casualties of the First and Second World Wars. It contains over 31,000 dead from around 25 countries, including Wehrmacht and SS-men and Dutch war criminals. This cemetery is located in the village of Ysselsteyn in the municipality of Venray in Limburg, Netherlands, and is 32 km (20 mi) east of Eindhoven. Ysselsteyn is the largest Second World War German cemetery and is the only Nazi-German cemetery in the Netherlands.^[1] Following the war, the Nazi soldiers were reburied in the cemetery. The deceased include Germans, Austrians, Dutch, Poles, Russians and many who fought on the side of Nazi Germany or supported them in non-military roles.