Cimetière Militaire Allemand de Seclin

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...