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

Created during the Battle of Normandy on 20 June 1944, the cemetery was formed by the 603rd Quartermaster Graves Registration Company for the burial of fallen 1st US Army service personnel.

The burial plots of the Americans were reused by to inter German war dead from 1,400 locations across the Normandy region by the French authorities (Service Francais des Sepultures).

Once the neck of the Cotentin Peninsula had been crossed, the American forces then headed towards Valogne and Cherbourg.The soldiers who fell during these operations were originally buried here in the village of Orglandes.

The French Burial Department brought together all the scattered German war dead in the surrounding area, some of whom had been buried alone, others in small cemeteries, and reburied them in the vacated ground.

It is thought the men were members of a mine clearance team that were killed by the accidental explosion of demolition charges in Asnières-en-Bessin close to Bayeux.