Vladslo German war cemetery is about three kilometres north east of Vladslo, near Diksmuide, Belgium. Established during World War I, the cemetery originally held 3,233 wartime burials. In 1956, burials from many smaller surrounding cemeteries were concentrated in Vladslo, and it now contains the remains of 25,644 soldiers. – by Käthe Kollwitz, a noted German sculptor. She made the statues in the 1930s as a tribute to her youngest son, Peter, who was killed in October 1914 and is buried in the cemetery. The eyes on the father-figure gaze on the stone directly in front of him, on which Kollwitz's son's name is engraved.

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  • Ieper (Ypres) – Belgium. Nearby site: Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof 1914–1918 (German military cemetery), Vladslo.
  • German military cemetery Vladslo.
  • Ypres: Vladslo German Cemetery.
  • (de) Vladslo, on website of Volksbund.
  • (nl) Duitse militaire begraafplaats Vladslo (German military cemetery Vladslo), on WO1.be