Cemetery System and American Battle Monuments Commission. Germany In Germany the state is responsible for the war graves. In addition to soldiers, victims of National Socialism and the GDR also fall under the definition of "war grave". Abroad, the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund deutscher Kriegsgräberfürsorge) takes over the care of German war dead. War graves are under legal protection and have permanent resting rights. The war grave sites are mostly integrated in civil cemeteries and can be found on almost all graveyards. In popular culture Rupert Brooke's 1914 poem, The Soldier – "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England", is a patriotic poem about the possibility of dying abroad during a war. Brooke is himself buried in a war grave on Skyros in the Aegean Sea, having died while en route to fight in the Gallipoli Campaign. The War Graves Photographic Project, founded in 2008, aims to create an archive of names and photographs of all military graves and memorials from 1914 to the present day from any nationality, although focus on Commonwealth soldiers. Gallery See also American Battle Monuments Commission Burial at sea Canadian war cemeteries Commonwealth War Graves Commission Missing in action Mortuary Affairs National cemetery The Unknown Warrior Tomb of the Unknown Soldier United Nations Memorial Cemetery War memorial Klaus Schäfer, Picture gallery of the European War Graves References External links SI 2009/3380 The Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 Order no 2009/3380 Burials .