The losses in the Second World War for former Czechoslovakia are estimated at 178,000 war dead, of whom 114,000 are registered by name. The known grave locations are in about 5,200 places, and graves with more than 50 fallen are in 240 places. Approximately 35,000 war dead are thought to be buried in the territory of the present-day Slovak Republic. There are around 3,000 individual records of casualties in the First World War.
The work of the Volksbund began in 1990 in eastern Slovakia of the former CSFR. A collective cemetery was already inaugurated in Zborov in 1992, followed by Humenne and Presov in 1994, Hunkovce in 1995 and Vazec in 1998. With the inauguration of the cemetery in Bratislava (Pressburg) in 2000, all military cemeteries for soldiers who died in Slovakia in World War II have been built and handed over for use. The restoration and consolidation of World War I cemeteries is being carried out gradually.
The basis for the Volksbund's activities was initially the German-Czechoslovakian Neighborhood Treaty of February 27, 1992. On August 12, 2000, the German-Slovak War Graves Agreement came into force, thus establishing the care of war graves in both countries by treaty. The concerns of the German War Graves Commission are represented by the “German War Graves Commission in Slovakia”, based in Presov.