Südfriedhof (Cologne)
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Südfriedhof is the German name for the South Cemetery in Cologne, Germany. With an area of over 61 hectares, it is the largest cemetery in Cologne.[1]
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Südfriedhof also has sections for 2,596 Commonwealth war graves from prisoners of war mainly from the First World War.[2] There are also over 1,900 Italian prisoners of war buried here.
More dramatically, but less acknowledged, the cemetery contains the remains of around 40,000 civilian victims of the bombing of Cologne in the Second World War.[3]