The "Neuville-Saint-Vaast" cemetery is the largest German military cemetery in France of the First World War. 44,883, only one thousand less than the population of Whitchurch-Stouffville recorded in 2016, have been buried here from the 1914-1918 war. I was appalled of the treatment of the dead in this cemetery compared to Canadian cemeteries and the hidden articles in the Treaty of Versailles Canadians of today don't know about.
This cemetery was designed under the strict rules of the Treaty of Versailles that gave Germans a very small, segregated amount of land to bury their dead.
It also enforced that all crosses had to be painted black because their dead were seen as the "black souls".
Each cross has the names of four soldiers.
Both of the soldiers on the grave below died on April 9, 1917, the day of the Vimy Ridge battle.
