In war cemeteries such as those in Brockeswalde, there are not only soldiers but also civilians who died in bomb attacks, victims of forced labor during the Nazi era, people who died in captivity, people who fled and died during expulsion. The above-mentioned group of people also included the Allied aircraft crews killed during air raids. However, after the war, these were all exhumed from German cemeteries and reburied in national military cemeteries in Europe. Soldiers of the British Commonwealth from Lower Saxony, including from Cuxhaven, were all buried in the Becklingen War Cemetery near Celle. American airmen were buried in the "Margraten" military cemetery in the Netherlands, among others. In Germany, the states and, in a broader sense, the cemetery operators are responsible for maintaining the graves (Section 5 Paragraph 3 of the Graves Act). Fiscal responsibility lies with the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Section 10, Paragraph 4 and Paragraph 6 of the Graves Act). The maintenance of these graves is a state task anchored in the Basic Law, which is mostly carried out at the municipal level. In the Cuxhaven section, most of the people who died as a result of the war were buried in the municipal central cemetery in Brockeswalde. In this case, it is a war cemetery and not a military cemetery. This term is largely no longer used today, as it would only refer to the military forces. In addition to Brockeswalde, victims of the last two world wars were also buried in the cemeteries in Altenbruch and Döse. There is also a burial ground in the municipality of Nordholz (Wurster North Sea coast) where forced laborers and prisoners of war from various countries were buried.