Futapass German military cemetery

The German Futa Pass Cemetery (Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof Futapass; Cimitero militare germanico della Futa) is a war cemetery in Italy. According to the German War Graves Commission it holds remains of 30,800 German soldiers who died in the Second World War. It is located at the summit of the Futa Pass (Passo della Futa, 903 m) in the Apennines and in Mugello, near Traversa in the commune of Firenzuola, that is, about 40 kilometers north of Florence and 40 kilometers south of Bologna along National Highway Nr. 65 near the border of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna. The pass was part of the Gothic Line, meant to stop the Allied advance. It was the site of bitter combat between 9 and 21 April 1945, but most of the interred fell in late August 1944 between Carrara on the Ligurian Sea and the area surrounding Rimini.

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