Over the past several years there has been a renewed interest in Poland for exhuming the remains of German soldiers who were killed during their occupation of the country. Many of these soldiers were buried in local cemeteries in various cities/towns from 1939 - 1945 and once exhumed, documented and attempts made to Id them the remains are being transferred to Germany or to cemeteries that already contain the graves of many soldiers (both German and Polish), that are managed by the Polish War Graves Commission.
A number of locally known burial sites of German soldiers were destroyed or vandalized during the past few decades and some were only partially excavated.
This thread will contain a number of these individual excavations and the photos that were taken. Generally, there are no photos of weapons since the police have to be immediately notified by the excavations teams and are then taken away.
Set 1.
April 6, 2022, Brzeg Dolny, Poland:
The remains of three German WW2 Wehrmacht soldiers were exhumed so that they can be buried in the German WW2 war dead cemetery in the Czernica area. The soldiers died in 1945 and had been buried along a roadside. It's believed that they died in 1945 during Operation Brunhild, when the Germans tried to seize the Anorgana factory from the Soviets. These soldiers were not buried with their weapons but they certainly had alot of ammo buried with them.
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4. The German Death Head ring...
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13. This is a German Wound badge, like the US Purple Heart.
14. This is a German soldier's dog tag. When one is killed in battle who ever is collecting them to bring back to their HQ to report a soldier's death breaks the tag in half, taking one half with them and leaving the other half with the body. Since this one, and another, were intact the deaths of these guys was probably not registered with the German authorities at the time.
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A number of locally known burial sites of German soldiers were destroyed or vandalized during the past few decades and some were only partially excavated.
This thread will contain a number of these individual excavations and the photos that were taken. Generally, there are no photos of weapons since the police have to be immediately notified by the excavations teams and are then taken away.
Set 1.
April 6, 2022, Brzeg Dolny, Poland:
The remains of three German WW2 Wehrmacht soldiers were exhumed so that they can be buried in the German WW2 war dead cemetery in the Czernica area. The soldiers died in 1945 and had been buried along a roadside. It's believed that they died in 1945 during Operation Brunhild, when the Germans tried to seize the Anorgana factory from the Soviets. These soldiers were not buried with their weapons but they certainly had alot of ammo buried with them.
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2.
3.
4. The German Death Head ring...
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
13. This is a German Wound badge, like the US Purple Heart.
14. This is a German soldier's dog tag. When one is killed in battle who ever is collecting them to bring back to their HQ to report a soldier's death breaks the tag in half, taking one half with them and leaving the other half with the body. Since this one, and another, were intact the deaths of these guys was probably not registered with the German authorities at the time.
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