About 3km/2mi from the Canadian monument, Langemark, a pretty village that was much contested in the war, has a huge German war cemetery (almost 45,000 graves). At Langemark in 1914 thousands of young, inexperienced recruits, mostly students and schoolboys, lost their lives; a fact which was exploited by the propaganda machine of the Third Reich
and even today can be seen as being symbolic of the spontaneous willingness of youth to make sacrifices.
From Langemark return towards Ypres, past the British cemetery of Cementhouse, to Boezinge with a view of the silhouette of Ypres.