Norway
Bergen-Solheim
Total Occupation: 1.085 fatalities
Total Occupation: 1.085 fatalities
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Bergen lies on the innermost bay of the Byfjord, which forms a natural harbour at this point. The cemetery with 1,061 individual graves and 24 dead in a common grave is located in the Bergen-Solheim municipal cemetery, to the east of Bergen, and was established by the Wehrmacht in 1940. The Norwegian government buried German casualties from the Bergen area between 1954 and 1955. The graves are marked by granite crosses with the names of the dead. The cemetery was dedicated on August 28, 1960. 1,085 fallen soldiers from the Second World War rest here.
