Word: kolmeshã
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...unassuming Kolmesh??he cemetery, German and American flags flutter from the tower that overlooks the quaint, newly restored town of Bitburg. The two flags symbolize the friendship that Bitburg's German residents and the 10,600 Americans connected with the U.S. air base there have come to associate with their haven in the Eifel hills near the Luxembourg border. Each year since the cemetery was consecrated in 1959, American and French military officials have joined Germans in a wreath-laying ceremony at Kolmesh??he. This year Ronald Reagan intends to place a wreath there, and late last week, the cemetery...
...question of who lies beneath those shining headstones has fueled the controversy over the President's visit, making the placid little cemetery the focus of intense international scrutiny. Most of the more than 2,000 soldiers buried at Kolmesh??he were killed in the German offensive of December 1944- January 1945 known as the Battle of the Bulge, which produced more than 100,000 German and 81,000 Allied casualties, 77,000 of them Americans...
...early 1944 an officer from the SS second division, some of whose members are buried at Kolmesh??he, was shot by a French resistance sniper. In retaliation, soldiers from the division rounded up the inhabitants of Oradour-sur-Glane, a nearby village, and massacred all 642 of them, including 207 children. They then burned the town to the ground. During the Battle of the Bulge, a Waffen SS battle group from the first division gunned down 71 American prisoners of war captured at Malmédy, Belgium, 40 miles northwest of Bitburg. Afterward, boisterous SS men used the bodies for target...
...graves at Kolmesh??he, Bitburg Mayor Theo Hallet says, "Everybody knows that there is not a single military cemetery in Germany without tombs of SS soldiers...
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