Talk:German War Graves Commission

Military history: Memorials / European / German / World War I / World War II Start‑class

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles

Start

This article has been rated as Start-class on the project's quality scale.

This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
Referencing and citation: criterion met Coverage and accuracy: criterion met Structure: criterion not met Grammar and style: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion met

Associated task forces:
/
	Military memorials and cemeteries task force
	European military history task force
	German military history task force
	World War I task force
	World War II task force

Germany Mid‑importance

	Germany portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Germany, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Germany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GermanyWikipedia:WikiProject GermanyTemplate:WikiProject GermanyGermany articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Death Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Death, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Death on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.DeathWikipedia:WikiProject DeathTemplate:WikiProject DeathDeath articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Cemeteries Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cemeteries, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Cemeteries on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CemeteriesWikipedia:WikiProject CemeteriesTemplate:WikiProject CemeteriesCemeteries articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Requested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

German War Graves Commission → German National War Graves Welfare Organisation — your manual of style says use real name of organisation in english. this name does not exist in english or german.United Prune Corporation 13:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC) —United Prune Corporation 13:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Survey[edit]

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.

Disagree Roger 15:21, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Disagree --Aarktica 17:36, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Any additional comments:

This name is not made up. The organisation is widely referred to as the German War Graves Commission. They use this name themselves in English here, for instance. It is also used by their British sister counterpart - the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (here, for example, under War Grave Organisations). Other usage examples include this one, this too and finally this. In any event, the proposed alternative is not the real name of the organisation in English but one of several possible literal translations. For instance, German People's War Grave Care Society is also a literal translation of Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge. Roger 15:21, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 06:35, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008[edit]

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 10:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deutsche Ehrenstätte El Alamein[edit]

The Deutsche Ehrenstätte El Alamein is located near El Alamein, Matruh, Egypt, and contains the remains of some 20,000 unknown German dead from World War II. I do not see it listed in this article. Nor can I find it on the GWGC website. So here is more information: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/44692602 and http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2400763&CScntry=147&CSsr=21& . Are there German speaking/reading editors out there who can incorporate this El Alamein memorial into the article? But if it is not a GWGC cemetery, where (e.g., which article) might this info belong? --S. Rich (talk) 00:00, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you S. Rich for this hint (Deutsche Kriegsgräberstätte El Alamain). There is a description on the internet site of German War Graves Commission.<refInventory of German War Grave cemeteries (Land=country, Friedhof=name of cemetery)</ref It is thankfully mentioned that British people helped to bury the dead German bodies. --Roland.h.bueb (talk) 21:12, 28 April 2012 (UTC)--Roland.h.bueb (talk) 21:16, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

S. Rich, a detailed discription of the german cemetery can be found under Internetsite of Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (German War Graves commission: El Alamein German war cemetery). For the Italian and Commonwealth cemeteries look El Alamein and de:El-Alamein#Kriegsgräberstätten.--Roland.h.bueb (talk) 17:49, 3 April 2013 (UTC) --Roland.h.bueb (talk) 18:34, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

S. Rich, now I found on german Wikivoyage the description of the war graves of all nations in El Alamein

[Alamein on german wikivoyage] Thanks for your interest--Roland.h.bueb (talk) 17:20, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

S. Rich, parts for a seperate article also exist in Wikimedia. Category:Cemeteries in El Alamein. --Roland.h.bueb (talk) 17:36, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

El Alamein is in the meantime part of List of German cemeteries by country/conflict in the article.--Roland.h.bueb (talk) 20:08, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New article de:Deutsche Kriegsgräberstätte El Alamein is now published at German Wikipedia. Thanks to S. Rich--Roland.h.bueb (talk) 19:31, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Segments translated from German to English language[edit]

Section from de:Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge#Partnerorganisationen im Ausland translated from German to English language.--Roland.h.bueb (talk) 17:49, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Today I will start to translate section de:Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge#Tätigkeiten to German War Graves Commission#Activities--Roland.h.bueb (talk) 17:13, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Toda I translated the section de:Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge#Kriegsgräberstätten für alle Opfergruppen to German War Graves Commission#Taking care for cemeteries of persons killed by war. --Roland.h.bueb (talk) 16:14, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Segments translated from english to german language[edit]

I translated the segment German War Graves Commission#List of German cemeteries by country/conflict to de: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge#Deutsche Kriegsgräberstätten nach Land und Konflikt and translated it to german language. Many thanks to the authors of this segment--Roland.h.bueb (talk) 20:29, 2 December 2018 (UTC)--Roland.h.bueb (talk) 20:30, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Georg Dannenmann killed in Rostov, Russia Nov. 1941.[edit]

Where us his grave and or Memorial? John Stroebel e mail jstrobel@tds.net 166.181.80.137 (talk) 19:40, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]