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In the German Federal Republic: The maintenance of military graves in accordance with the Geneva Conventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Rudolf Von Neumann
Rudolf Von Neumann*
Affiliation:
Member of the Federal German Headquarters of the German War Graves Commission
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Abstract

The Central Tracing Agency in Geneva has always had, amongst many other tasks in time of war, that of tracing the graves of missing military personnel. If we are more especially considering the Second World War, we can see that this activity began for the Central Prisoners of War Agency (its official title at that time), when hundreds of thousands of regimental enquiries were opened for French prisoners of war in Germany, in order to discover the fate of French military personnel missing during the summer of 1940.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 2 , Issue 20 , November 1962 , pp. 581 - 591
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1962

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References

1 Central Tracing Office for Missing Military Personnel and for War Graves (Zentralnachweise-Amt für Kriegerverluste und Kriegergräber).

2 Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge.

3 Translated by our Translation Section.