German Italian Memorial Cemetery

The German Italian Memorial Cemetery at the Fort McClellan United States Army post is the burial site for 26 German and three Italian World War II enemy combatants who had been interned at Fort McClellan at their time of death.

The rules and practices of disposing of deceased enemy combatants is dictated by International Humanitarian Law, as agreed upon by the 1929 and 1949 Geneva Conventions treaties.

[3] Fort McClellan Post Cemetery is one of 21 American cemeteries listed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as containing interments of prisoners of war (POW) for one, or both, world conflicts.

[3] Each deceased prisoner was given a funeral and a headstone for his grave, the same as Americans who died.

Intended to be solely a German prisoner of war cemetery, the three Italians died too late to be buried in the closed Italian prisoner of war cemeteries at Fort McClellan, and were subsequently buried with the Germans.