At the end of the 14-18 war, the town of Seclin agreed to the installation of a German military cemetery in the central cemetery, where 1,188 German soldiers and 4 Russian prisoners were laid to rest. The cemetery is maintained by Germany in accordance with international agreements. After the Second World War, however, the commune refused to allow a new German military cemetery on its soil, due to the massacres perpetrated in 1944 at Fort de Seclin and on September 2, 1944 in the commune on the eve of the Liberation. Today, as part of remembrance tourism, Germans sometimes visit the military cemetery to visit a member of their family.
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