Monument · Egypt
El Alamein German War Memorial
Octagonal castle-like memorial on the coast west of Alexandria where 4,313 German war dead are buried, inaugurated in 1959.
Where it is
30.8895, 28.8744
Why go
Built by the German War Graves Commission and inaugurated in October 1959, this memorial on the coastal road west of El Alamein holds 4,313 dead, nearly all German soldiers of the Second World War, gathered from scattered desert graves and neglected field cemeteries. The structure is an octagon, built of stone quarried near Marsa Matruh, about 42 metres across and twelve metres high, with a tower at each corner and an inner courtyard of honour ringed by an arcade. Seven niches cover crypts where the fallen lie, their names cast on bronze plaques.
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