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Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin

Berlin, Italy

Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin

Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof (Alter Sankt-Matthäus-Kirchhof or Old St. Matthew's Churchyard) is a cemetery in Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany. It was established in 1856 by the Protestant parish of St. Matthew. It is known for its interment of the Brothers Grimm, Rudolf Virchow, Talaat Pasha, and Claus v

on Stauffenberg. As for Stauffenberg, his corpse was exhumed by the SS on 22 July 1944, the day after his burial, and cremated to remove any traces of him. His tombstone, however, remains intact.

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