June - September
In the summer of 1948, the Dutch government gave permission to construct a permanent cemetery in Margraten. The bodies of some 3,000 German soldiers were transferred to the 'Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof' in Ysselsteyn. In 1946 the Dutch government decided to centralise and bury the deceased German solders at one cemetery. In the end, 31,585 solders - of whom 6,000 could not be identified - were reburied in Ysselsteyn.
Sjef Duijzens
Resident Termaar
18 July 2016
September 6th
All the remains were exhumed, prepared and laid in coffins, ready for reburial or repatriation. That day the groundwork (soil was added) and landscaping started and the final lay-out of the plots was carried out according to an earlier plan.
"What does a young kid know? I thought: I'll never stand it.”
Harry Steijns
Resident Termaar
09 January 2013
December 1st
The first soldiers were given their final resting place in Margraten.
"It can also be observed that no American was buried in a space that had been previously occupied by the enemy.”
