The message of reconciliation is also very present on Armistice Day in Europe.<br /><br />In the northern French village of Neuville Saint Vaast, which was destroyed during the war, one can find the country’s largest German military cemetery. <br /><br />Here lie some 45,000 fallen soldiers, including the remains of 130 who were Jewish.<br /><br />Horst Howe, the cemetery’s landscaper, told euronews: “After the war, it was normal, France invited Germany to come and collect their bodies. Germany was not organised enough, so France said we’re going to do it for you.”<br /><br />In the village a former mayor has also set up a museum to keep the memories of the war alive.<br /><br />87-year-old Donald Browarski has been collecting items to display for most of his life.<br /><br />He is also keen to highlight examples of reconciliation that began soon after the war. He told euronews: “The German captain sent us a letter that said: we have your wounded and we are treating them; and you can come and recover the dead so funerals can be held.”<br /><br />Our correspondent, Laurence Alexandrowicz, reported: “Despite the horrors seen here, the small community of Neuville Saint Vaast wants a land of reconciliation. The evidence of that today is a wreath-laying ceremony, the first time since 1960.”
