A light rain has begun to fall and the sky is dark enough that pictures are
difficult to take. I’ve upped the ISO rating on the camera to 800, which
puts a little more noise into the digital pictures. The light rain and
somewhat gloomy skies match my melancholy mood for the time being.

This cemetery is the resting spot for almost 26,000 of the some 135,000
Germans who died in the war. The highlight of the cemetery are statues
of a mother and father grieving for their fallen son. Kaethe Kollwitz, a
well-known Berlin artisan, carved these statues in the likeness of her and
her husband in memorial to their son Peter, who was killed in Flanders on
October 23rd 1914 . These are very moving pieces of art and are placed
looking over their son’s grave.

The grave markers in the cemetery list the names of up to 20 soldiers on each marker, unlike British, American, and Belgian cemeteries where each person has an individual headstone.

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