Ohlsdorf Cemetery (German: Friedhof Ohlsdorf or (former) Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf) in the quarter Ohlsdorf of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world and the second-largest cemetery in the world after Calverton National Cemetery in eastern Long Island. There are buried mainly civilians, but also war victims of different nations.
Read more about Ohlsdorf Cemetery: History and Description, Hamburg Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Memorials For The Victims of Nazism, Cemetery Museum, Notable Burial Sites, See Also, Further Reading
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“The cemetery isn’t really a place to make a statement.”
—Mary Elizabeth Baker, U.S. cemetery committee head. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1988)