Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
Due to the rapid advance of the Allies during the latter stage of the Normandy campaign, German war dead were scattered over a wide area, many of them buried in isolated field graves or small battlefield cemeteries. In the years following the war, the German War Graves Commission ("Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge") sought to establish six main German cemeteries in the Normandy area.