on behalf of the Dutch government. Upon his death, his ashes were scattered at the cemetery per his request. Protests From the 1960s, protests were lodged against the German dead and the cemetery. The protests were revived in 2013, when the Dutch Anti-Fascists' League AFVN discovered that since the year 2000, the German ambassador had been holding yearly commemorations there. In 2020, the AFVN started a petition against the visits of the ambassador with Dutch and German Jews joining the effort, along with Beate Klarsfeld and the management of the former Dachau concentration camp. The ambassador ended the practice. In 2020, the American Ambassador to the Netherlands visited the cemetery and tweeted photos of the graves. Neo-Nazis The cemetery gets irregular visits from Neonazis. In November 2020, a Belgian woman placed flowers on the grave of the first Dutch SS-volunteer Willem Heubel. Gallery Films CEFRG: Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Ysselsteyn at YouTube. Michael Mustermann: Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Kriegsgräberstätte Ysselsteyn, Niederlande at Youtube. Longa Via Est: Duitse Oorlogsbegraafplaats Ysselsteyn (German war cemetery Ysselsteyn) at YouTube. Na de bevrijding WO2: 75 jaar vrijheid: oorlogsbegraafplaats Ysselsteyn at Youtube. Wolffman325: Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Ysselsteyn Niederlande. Duitse Militaire begraafplaats at YouTube. Omroep Venray: Hans Sakkers: Lezing Duitse Militaire Begraafplaats Ysselsteyn at YouTube. The Battlefield Explorer: German War Cemetery Ysselsteyn – Over 30,000 Graves at YouTube. See also World War II memorials and cemeteries in the Netherlands Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery References External links Ysselsteyn German war cemetery (Deutsche Kriegsgräberstätte Ysselsteyn) at Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge Ysselsteyn German war cemetery (Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Ysselsteyn) Ysselsteyn German war cemetery at tracesofwar Find a Grave: Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Ysselsteyn Stichting Kennispunt Mei 1940 – German war cemetery IJsselsteijn Youth Meeting Centre Ysselsteyn (Internationale Jugendbegegnungs- und Bildungsstätte Ysselsteyn) 1940s architecture Cemeteries in Limburg (Netherlands) Cemeteries in the Netherlands German War Graves Commission Venray World War I memorials World War II cemeteries in the Netherlands