The cemetery is maintained and managed by the voluntary German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge).

Champigny-Saint-André was originally the site of a battlefield cemetery, established by the United States Army Graves Registration Service in August 1944 during the push towards Paris across the Seine.

The French authorities (Service français des sépultures militaires) collected additional German casualties from a wide area who were in field graves and small local cemeteries.

Behind the main entrance is a memorial courtyard that includes columns of travertine detailing the locations from where German casualties were brought to the cemetery.

Headstones are made from light-coloured limestone and bear the name, rank and date of birth and death of two servicemen resting next to one another.