To further explain my question:
I have seen the movies where a gentleman in a uniform of a specific branch of the armed services comes up to a house. He delivers the notification to the family of the deceased in a telegram. Is this depiction accurate? We’re these men (were they only men) trained in grieving? Were they chaplains?
Was this method also traditionally used in Europe as well? With all the devastation from bombing etc, it must have been difficult.
The few sources I have read (literary, not scientific) about Germany during the first and second World War usually talk only about a letter that comes by mail, going something like
"Dear (Father/wife/etc),
we are sorry to inform you that your son (rank, troop type...) died during operation X/defending the fatherland. He was a brave soldier and much beloved by his comrades. His remains are burried at X cemetery."