ABSTRACT
Since the early 1950s, hundreds of thousands of relatives, friends and former comrades have been visiting the graves of the 80,300 German soldiers who found their final resting place in Norman soil. Many Germans also travel to Normandy to see the relics of Hitler’s vaunted Atlantic Wall and to visit military museums that provide background on the ferocious battle that raged in this region during the summer of 1944. It is these two groups of German tourists, visitors of the war cemeteries and people interested in military history, that I am trying to support with my activities as a guardian of remembrance.
