German Prisoners Buried at Chattanooga National Cemetery

From Wikipedia.

Along with over 50,000 internments for American military at this cemetery, there  are graves of German prisoners who died both during World War I (78) and World War II (108).  After the war, the German government paid to have other POWs disinterred from Hot Springs National Cemetery and moved to Chattanooga.

There is a German World War I monument on the grounds of the cemetery.

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From the Chattanooga National Cemetery site.

In addition to Civil War veterans, there are 78 German German prisoners of war from World War I buried at Chattanooga.  Pursuant to provisions included in the peace treaty between the United States and Germany at the end of World War I, the German government sought the location and status of Germans who died while  detained in the United States.

An investigation conducted by the War Department found that the largest number of German POWs was interred at Chattanooga.  For a short time, thought was given to  removing all other German  internments to Chattanooga.

In the end, however, the German government decided that only 23  remains from the Hot Springs National Cemetery  should be reinterred here.  The German government  assumed the cost of disinterment and transportation to Chattanooga, and erected a monument  in 1935 to commemorate their POWs.

--GreGen