The German investigators therefore placed the remains in seven burial pouches and then re-interred them in the Marigny German War Cemetery, 40 miles south of Cherbourg, the DPAA posted.

AFTER years of searching, the Ration Shed Museum and the University of Queensland located two mass burial sites, bringing to light one of the darkest periods in Cherbourg history.

CHERBOURG residents have had the opportunity to get their hands on pieces of wartime history - and maybe even add to them.

CHERBOURG residents have had the opportunity to get their hands on pieces of wartime history - and maybe even add to them.

While disinterring a mass grave of what were believed to be 24 Germans buried in the Cherbourg cemetery, a Volksbund team discovered one of Baskind’s identification tags and remnants of an ...

The German investigators therefore placed the remains in seven burial pouches and then re-interred them in the Marigny German War Cemetery, 40 miles south of Cherbourg, the DPAA posted.

The German investigators therefore placed the remains in seven burial pouches and then re-interred them in the Marigny German War Cemetery, 40 miles south of Cherbourg, the DPAA posted.