Cimetière militaire allemand de Dagneux in Dagneux, Rhône-Alpes

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Dagneux, Departement de l'Ain, Rhône-Alpes 01120 France

Coordinates: 45.83590, 5.06871
www.ville-dagneux.fr/Cimetière-allemand.html
04 72 25 11 80
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The cemetery was created in 1952 by the French authorities. It is placed about 2 km South of Montluel and Dagneux. In 1958, the "Volksbund deutscher Kriegsgraeberfuersorge" (VdK) expaned it to is current size of 4,5 ha and more than 19.000 soldiers that are buried there. Most of the soldiers died in the South of France after the Allies landed at the Côte d'Azur on 15. August 1944 (Operation "Dragoon").