German Cemetery Glencree Wicklow Mountains Ireland #13 is a photograph by Alan Salinger which was uploaded on September 9th, 2019.
German Cemetery Glencree Wicklow Mountains Ireland #13
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German Cemetery Glencree Wicklow Mountains Ireland #13
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Alan Salinger
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Glencree German War Cemetery (German: Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof) was dedicated on 9 July 1961. There are 134 graves. Most are Luftwaffe (air force) or Kriegsmarine (navy) personnel. Fifty-three are identified, 28 are unknown. Six bodies are those of World War I prisoners of war held by the British. Forty-six[citation needed] were German civilian detainees who were being shipped from Britain to Canada for internment when their ship, SS Arandora Star was torpedoed by a German U-boat, U-47, off Tory Island, County Donegal, on July 1940. Dr Hermann Görtz, an Abwehr spy, is also buried there. Dr Görtz committed suicide after the war when he was informed he would be deported; he feared he would be handed over to the Soviet Union.
The graveyard is administered by the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge).[2]
Alongside the German Cemetery, on the bank of the Glencree River, a Mass rock can be reached by a narrow riverside path.
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