It contains the graves of 10,913 German servicemen from the Battle of the Bulge in winter 1944 and spring 1945.

[2] Planning for the cemetery began in May 1952, and it was inaugurated on 5 June 1955, ten years after the end of the war.

[1] The ceremonial opening took place in the presence of more than 2,000 relatives of the dead, whom the Volksbund had brought to Sandweiler in special trains.

[1] In 2005, a special ceremony attended by civil and military representatives from Luxembourg and Germany as well as members of youth groups, took place to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the cemetery.

[3] The last remains interred were those of an unknown German soldier discovered in the forests of Schumann's Eck near Wiltz in late 2007.