Southern Graves

In Memory Of Eighteen German Sailors Who Died In The United States Army Hospital At Asheville 1918-1919 Nicht grossern Vorteil wusst'ich zu nennen Als des'Feindes Verdienst erkennen. No greater gain for the human spirit Than a sense of our foeman's merit. Karl Von Aspern Karl Bening Adam Biffar Wilhelm Denecke Karl Flum Fritz Hoffman Hans Jakobi Karl Kilper Emil Kobe Karl Koschmieder Heinrich Lochow Hermann Menzel Johann Wilhelm Meyer Johann Meyerhoff Viktor Wilhelm Rieke Richard Paul Schlause Wilhelm Stockhausen Fritz Hermann Wahnschaffe Erected By Kiffin Rockwell Post American Legion The memorial transcribed above is located at Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina. Text from the Riverside Cemetery Walking Tour : "Riverside Cemetery is the final resting place for World War I German Prisoners of War. Several thousand sailors were first transferred from Ellis Island to a detention center in Hot Springs, North Carolina. A typho...