The cemetery consists of 2 parts. One part was used for the burial of soldiers whose bodies had been transferred from the theaters of war to Brunswick or who died on the consequences of the injury in the hospitals of Brunswick. The second part of the cemetery was used as burial place for the bombing victims mainly of 10 February 1944. In both gravefields are buried 293 soldiers and 193 bombing victims.
The paratrooper memorial was erected outside of that cemetery but directly at the border. It honours the fallen paratroopers of the 2nd World War and as the incription tells which were fallen in Africa, Italy, Norway, France, Crete, Holland and Russia. The obelisk is made of limestone from the Elm Forest and is decorated with the paratrooper helmet and the badge of the troop. The inscription reads: "Treue um Treue" (Loyalty to loyalty).