German Cemetery in Recogne, Belguim, Late Afternoon.

In the last winter of the Second World War, the Germans launched the Ardennes Offensive. They surrounded Bastogne but were unable to take the city. After heavy fighting, the Americans reconquered the area in January 1945.

In February 1945, they established a cemetery in Recogne, where some 2,700 Americans and 3,000 Germans were buried. After the war in 1945-1946, the remains of the fallen American soldiers were transferred to Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial. In the meantime, the Belgian authorities started clearing all German cemeteries in the area, and transferred all German graves either to Recogne or to Lommel German war cemetery. Therefore, the cemetery also contains graves of Germans killed in 1940 or during the occupation.

In the 1950s the cemetery was transferred to the German War Graves Commission.

 It contains the graves of 6.807 German soldiers of the Second World War. The cemetery is situated to the east of the hamlet, and to the south of the road to Foy. It is maintained by the German War Graves Commission.

from my friend who is doing her dissertation on German War Cemeteries;

German war cemeteries usually have no walls, and if only low ones that still allows to look beyond. To integrate itself as a unit in the surrounding landscape was a design and ideological principle. Often they have a girdle of planting around their boundaries, but the open view was always of importance. 

Some, but not all Germany's civic cemeteries have walls when they are in a city such as Munich. I know of one in the city that has rather high walls, but the ones at the city's edges have the natural principle. 

Italy's civic cemeteries have often rather high walls. That was in issue when the US planned their military cemeteries for Italy.  Their whole funerary culture is different in Italy.  Lots of monuments side by side, fewer trees,etc.  The protestant cemetery in Rome is interesting because of this;  there there are trees and less stone.