For some, tending the graves was an act of reconciliation. For others, it was about acknowledging shared losses and shared grief. Thousands of Germans who died in Britain during the first and second world wars were laid to rest in local graveyards. British people tended these graves for decades, even laying flowers and wreaths for their former foes. View image in fullscreen Mourners at the Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery in 1967. Photograph: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge Image Archive A historian has uncovered new details of this extraordinary relationship, and found that more than 7,000 German soldiers and prisoners of war...