German cemetery Mont-de Huisnes

Mont Saint- Michel looming in the mist.

11,956 fallen soldiers of the Second World War are buried on the site. Most of them were reburied from the departments of Morbihan, llleet-Vilaine, Mayenne, Sarthe, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Vienne and Indre as well as from the Channel Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney and Sark.

The Mont-de-Huisnes cemetery was officially inaugurated in 1963. It’s designed as a “Totenburg” or “Fortress of the dead,” making it architecturally significant as the only German crypt-type war grave in France.

All the German on Alderney died were interned to here and the rest of the Channel Islands.