4000 Bodies Of WWII German Soldiers Found Inside Abandoned Factory

60 years after the end of the Second World War, a shocking discovery was made inside of a Czech factory. The remains of 4000 German soldiers had been dumped inside the abandoned facility, and there was a debate as to what to do with the former enemies bodies. It settled that they should be buried inside of a newly build cemetery, but there was a lot of opposition to this.
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[@jamesharrison6201]

I was going to say, USSR "liberated". So don't forget what the Russians did to the Polish army officers

[@user-st2eh3gz6k]

And don't forget what the Poles did to Soviet prisoners and civilians in the 1920s during the two Soviet-Polish wars when Poland invaded Russia to seize territories, and with Czechoslovakia in 1938

[@vh5663]

@@user-st2eh3gz6k 1) Soviets invaded Poland just like they invaded every other country that emerged from the ruins of the Russian empire, after soviets *willingly* gave the territories up in 1917. Also kindly tell me what Poles did to the soviet civilians. Something along the lines of what soviets did to Poles in 1939, when they killed 20k prisoner and dragged over 300k of Poles to the siberian concentration camps? 2) The 1938 clash between Poles and Czechs was simply about Poles retaking a few villages previously won by Czechs in 1920. If Poles are to blame, so are Czechs, who used the soviet invasion of Poland to run over any resistence Poles could put up on their south-western borders.

[@user-st2eh3gz6k]

@@vh5663 Ha ha, well, the Fins just invaded Russia in the 20s, like the Czechs, like the Balts, and well, voluntarily when Russia had no forces at all after the First World War lol, but very simply a boy when the Poles invaded Russia in the 20s, the main goal of the Polish leadership led by Jozef Pilsudski was the restoration of Poland within the historical borders of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772 with the establishment of control over Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania and geopolitical dominance in Eastern Europe, with civilians very simply 30,000 people were captured and they were simply exterminated in captivity by national recognition... I always liked Katyn in you clowns, Katyn, but you don't remember about your concentration camps, 2) son, for the sake of a stupid explanation, the Poles were the first to sign a non-aggression pact with Hitler in 1934, the Pilsudski-Ribbentrop pact and bought Czechoslovakia in 1938... Do you know why this pact was signed?.. the Poles wanted to invade the USSR with the Nazis, that's all, in their southwestern lands))) and you know that initially they were German with non-Polish, and then Czech, and then Austrian, they became Polish only in 1945 thanks to the USSR, you idiot... by the way, Poland is now "decomunizing" let this territory be decomunized and given to Germany, the Germans already have such plans to return them to themselves ...)))

[@oneblach]

@@user-st2eh3gz6kyou must be one of those whacking off to picture of Putin

[@ambulanza]

@@vh5663 oh poor poles.. poor poles, always wronged and never wrong... you that willingly helped the nazis to slaughter 1.5 million pole jews.. you poles, that have the worst possible record of pogroms in your history... oh poor poles, poor poles... LOL

[@amariner5]

The story is missing "time of death" Did they die in war, or were they POWs executed by the Soviets?

[@GoetzimRegen]

Pattonstroops got through Czech too, and they shoot POWs when there where no time.

[@martinrolecek8837]

He completely made of most of information. Those bodies were found in 1998 during demolition of factory build in soviet occupation times. The bodies were exhumed west German soldiers from war cemetery that was decommissioned for building of said factory. Given they they were western Germans Soviet/polish occupiers did half arsed job of requesting repatriation, which was rejected by west anyway. So they stack them il in empty storage for repatriation later and walled it off. The paperwork disappeared and bodies weren't found until walls come down. Investigation, repatriation and proper burial of every single remain was done less than year after discovery

[@Ozzie1758]

War is war basta

[@wateenonzin3729]

@@amariner5 Sovjets? What you think the Czechs did to German soldiers and local Sudeten-Germans the moment the war ended? The Czechs were even worse then the Sovjets...

[@amber40494]

​@martinrolecek8837 were they buried there or returned to Germany? Very interesting story

[@Henpitts]

Most German soldiers were not Nazis. They were regular people that were not given a choice. My mother was German. My father was American. I lost 2 uncles to the Russian front. One is probably buried in a mass grave near Stalingrad. I visited my German side in the 80's. Wonderful and friendly people. Treat the dead with respect.

[@dinkster1729]

Exactly. My mother was of German/Canadian descent on her father's side--his grandfather came over to the Kitchener, Ontario area (formerly Berlin, Ontario) in 1844 at the age of 10. She was in the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWACs) for nearly 3 years during World War 2 and her maiden name was Wagner. I asked her once if anyone said anything to her about her being German when Canada was at war with Germany in World War 2. She answered me crisply, "No, they never said anything, but they may have thought something." I suppose they might have.

[@fatrambo73]

everything you said is true, but they were still the invaders.

[@mpravica]

Hogwash! God will judge us all.

[@420bengalfan]

The virtuous weirmacht is a fallacy pushed by German generals to blame everything on hitler and the ss

[@KL-te1dq]

That is fking BS, MOST were sympathetic or directly involved!

[@eightballsidepocket9467]

There is an organization called OeSK, translates to Austrian Black Cross, that has been working for over 100 years to give the fallen a proper burial.

[@mpravica]

Are they also concerned with "proper burial" for the millions of the victims of the nazis?

[@ethanorange9213]

@@mpravica they have their own people to bury them. someone has to bury them. you sound brainwashed.

[@GloryFit]

@@mpravicatheir was victims on both sides and war is disgusting as a whole. Not sure what your point is and I am sure all those "other" victims you seem to refer your comment to have had support/donors/funding/outreach for years and years so move on with your bickering.

[@userbosco]

Saying the Czechs had a hard time is quite an understatement. First the Nazis, immediately followed by Stalin. Brutal.

[@olasek7972]

Poland got Stalin and Nazis practically at the same time

[@metapolitikgedanken612]

I recall a Czech saying: "We will survive another occupation, but I doubt we will survive another liberation".

[@JimboShogun0686]

Same story with Poland occupied by both nazi's and Russia

[@meibing4912]

The communist coup was not until 1948. One can discuss if wiser men in power at the time would have been able to avoid it happening.

[@cultofpersonalit1888]

​@@meibing4912 How? Good luck trying to discuss with Stalin back then.

[@enawikena]

Hlucin is a German town founded in 1250. The population got "ethnically cleansed" in 1945. What is shocking for me as a German is the fact that Czech Republic and Poland still do not admit their darkness during WW 2 and afterwards. There were so many massacres after the war. Alone in Poland 2000 000 Germans perished. All the crimes were never admitted and everybody talking about silenced. So sad that the winners of war never learn from it.

The Germans were not invited in Poland....and now the Germans push again via Nato for WW3 in Ukraine....they were stupidos and will always be stupidos.

[@3746463]

Exactly so. The current Czech regime won´t take responsiblity for the crimes comitted by czechs after WWII.

@@3746463 The nazis were not exactly invited....

[@enawikena]

The Czechs did not get invited to rule over milliions of Germans violently. Try to open your mind for reality. The reason Hitler took Czekoslovakia has had historical reasons nobody talks about. There is a history to discover . You do not need to be on Hitler's side when becoming objective. History is not what we get taugt.

[@bicivelo]

Small correction. A coffin has 6 sides, like in old school Dracula movies. These have 4 sides, making them caskets.

[@eligebrown8998]

No one cares

[@bicivelo]

@@eligebrown8998 apparently you and 16 others that thumbs up 😆

[@robertclark972]

Not counting top and bottom .

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

That's interesting information.

[@SteffiReitsch]

WRONG. The number of sides is a distinction somebody in Amerika just dreamed up. A coffin is a coffin no matter if the box is rectangular or traditional hexagon shaped. In Amerika the funeral trade started calling coffins "caskets," a euphemism that sounded less morbid. Formerly a casket was a small jewelry box. In Amerika the word caught on and now the Amies call coffins "caskets." Silly people. For the rest of the English speaking world it's still correctly called a coffin.

[@malcolmlane-ley2044]

I've not heard this story before so thanks for highlighting it. At the time the Soviets were sweeping their way towards Berlin the German army was a very colourful cocktail of multiple nationals which means those bodies, some of which were exhumed from all over Czechoslovakia it is reported, may have been Romanian, Hungarian, Italian, Scandinavians etc. Not all Germans were Nazis and many German soldiers on the eastern front included volunteers from places like Denmark, Sweden and Finland who were fighting against Communism rather than the Nazi cause. The issue of where to repatriate or where to bury must surely have been a bureaucratic nightmare.

[@franceyneireland1633]

The Wehmacht at the time likely consisted of a lot of teens and young boys. Many were young teenagers, conscripted into the Wehrmacht to defend the dying Third Reich. The Canadians while fighting in Western Europe in some instances fought teens ( I assume Hitler youth), who wouldn't surrender and fought till death.

[@lazyupload]

I like how "we are just fighing communism" is a legit excuse for being complicit with mass murder of slavs and jews.

[@Porkypies6m]

150,000 men of -J descent served in the German military underAH (book) Bryan Mark Rigg, history professor at the American Military University in Virginia,

[@malcolmlane-ley2044]

@@Porkypies6m What is j descent please?

[@Porkypies6m]

@@malcolmlane-ley2044 wish

[@cesar_145]

They were soldiers. No matter who they fought for they fought for their country and should get a soldier's burial.

[@ortegaperu8510]

These men were heroes. I salute them! May they rest in peace 🙏

[@williamstuhldreher2466]

Whatever AI Bot composed and voiced this clip bungled a couple assertions. 1. Accepted false notion of a high percentage Germany Army, Home Guard, Territorial militias - whatever groups members belonged to the NSDAP aka “Nazi Party”. Barely 10% or fewer of these units belonged to NSDAP. 2. Acceptance of Czech objections from some in Cheb the killed soldiers came from somewhere else - in other words Germany. Flatly contradicted by your own video where you report on the nature of the 4000 being young, inexperienced, untrained teens and younger handed weapons - if any even available, all likely from local areas of the Sudetenland hence ceded to Czechoslovakia.

[@timothyfoley3000]

No! Absolutely not. You are telling what you are ...

[@timothyfoley3000]

​@@ortegaperu8510 Your a Nazi

[@330FoeSho]

They committed a genocide

Not surprised that some Czech locals were against it, as the dead bodies are a reminder of the incredible Czech crimes and atrocities committed in and after 1945 against Germans, which are sadly still put under the rug.

[@robertomeneghetti6215]

Germans burned more than 200 people in Lidice, because of just 1 man, Heydrich, killed.... 🤔😔😬

[@tomoplt5437]

Czechoslovakia was broken up and invaded by the Germans in 1938 and 1939 respectively. Bloody Germans occupied and terrorized the rest of the country for 6 years. My grandfather was arrested by the GESTAPO in 1944 and subsequently murdered in February 1945, the rest of the family was persecuted until the end of the war. You have nothing to tell me about good Germans and bad Czechs. You better shut up.

[@JaEDLanc]

Maybe you’ve never heard of Lidice or Heydrich, best do a bit of reading before making your comment!

[@tomoplt5437]

It is nothing in comparison with atrocities committed by Germans during years 1939-1945 and after (Werwolf).

[@robertomeneghetti6215]

@@JaEDLanc 👌👌👍👍👏

[@andywells397]

Its easy for us to judge now but for many ordinary german men they had no choice other than fight.

[@loneranger5349]

You always have a choice 😊

[@barbara6058]

That is the same argument they used at Nuremburg. It didn't hold water then and it doesn't now.

[@honorableundead2273]

​@@loneranger5349when you're told to fight or have your family executed you would be hard pressed not to fight

[@karlscher5170]

@@barbara6058 All germans are war criminals now?

[@andywells397]

@@barbara6058 we are not talking about the leaders and perpetrators of crimes I'm talking about ordinary men, check your facts.

[@colinsmith2005]

If you deny a soldier a resting place so long after their passing, you have found today an enemy you will never conquer, yourself.

[@unknown5150variable]

Ummm, nah.

[@hellskitchen10036]

@@unknown5150variable Having gone to war myself there are a lot ( maybe most) who didn't want to be there. When you are called to duty you have to go.

[@unknown5150variable]

@@hellskitchen10036 what does that have to do with my comment?

[@williamchairo8407]

@@unknown5150variable Methinks you have an issue with simple wise observations!

[@williamchairo8407]

@@unknown5150variable Ditto on this comment also!

[@Chaotic-Libertarian]

Let them rest in peace. One man's foe is another man's family.

[@malemesjager41]

That's well said....

[@Chirsstimson]

you and the horse you rode in on , too .

[@RommelsAsparagus]

Agreed, they fumbled it for 60 years, they can find the land and do it right. Germans are buried in France too. Everything from diehard Nazi party members to unwilling teenage conscripts. They're all equal now.

[@Chaotic-Libertarian]

@@Chirsstimson Stay away from the horses. Farmers don't like you engaging in relationships with their livestock.

[@AngelGonzalez-pd4cn]

What about the MILLIONS of people slaughtered by the Germans in their concentration camps?

[@joebones7237]

“We fought the wrong enemy.” -General George S. Patton😢

[@mikebrown383]

God Bless My Friend.

[@mikebrown383]

General George Patton was murdered at the very end of WW2. Don't take much to figure that out.

[@daleburrell6273]

...HITLER AND HIS GANG WERE SURE AS HELL BAD ENOUGH- AND THEY HAD TO BE STOPPED!!!! AND LET'S REMEMBER WHO STARTED THAT GODDAM WAR IN EUROPE: IF THE GERMANS HAD STAYED WITHIN THEIR OWN BORDERS, WW2 IN EUROPE WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED...(!)

[@colbycharles52]

Probably why he died suspiciously.

[@stevenhunt8075]

A legend. But this is a terrible take

[@haloguy628]

All Germans that were living in Sudeten Land before the war and during the war were forcefully resettled to Germany in mid to late 1945. The Benes Decrees that were written by Czechoslovakia Exile Government in UK during the war declared Germans and Hungarians living in Czechoslovakia prewar and during the war as collective enemies and designated for resettlement out of Czechoslovakia. Six years after the war only transplants from other parts of Czechoslovakia who moved to the Sudeten Land and were given properties of the resettled Germans as incentive were living there. So, it's no wonder the Czechs and Slovaks who came there after the war did not want 4K German soldiers buried there. Six years after the war Czechoslovakia was already under communist regime that perpetrated putsch in 1948 and therefore Czechoslovakia could only talk to East Germany and would not contact West Germany. East Germany did not care for the German fallen and did not establish any German military cemeteries outside East Germany. So no money was coming to bury these 4K German fallen. West Germany established military war casualty identification and was tasked with caring for German military cemeteries outside of Germany. W Germany would take care and pay for new cemetery in Czechoslovakia but since the communists refused to talk to W Germany nothing could be done.

[@Utubexpert-kx7ew]

thanks for this excellent explanation about the German POWs. God bless their souls

[@dinkster1729]

Strange! I had a hairdresser here in Kingston, Ontario, Canada who was a Czech refugee. He and his wife came here after the crackdown by the Soviets in Prague in 1968. He told me once that he wasn't Czech. In fact, he was Hungarian and had only started speaking Czech when he was 16. They all couldn't have been repatriated after 1945 therefore. He'd be about 80 now, I suppose if he is still alive.

[@haloguy628]

@@dinkster1729 He was Slovak. Southern Slovakia has till today many Hungarian speaking people. It's the result of the division of Austro-Hungarian Empire after WWI when Czechoslovakia was created. There was always a tension between the Slovak and Hungarian ethnics but after WWII the Hungarian speaking population was not ordered out of Czechoslovakia and to resettle in Hungary as the German speaking population had to. Lots of people emigrated from Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1950 when the western borders were sealed by the communists who usurped power in 1948 installing electric fences and posting guards with orders to shoot to kill anybody trying to cross. After the end of WWII the installation of totalitarian socialism was only matter of time since the russian army was still in CS after victory in WWII. Many people understood that and emigrated. The Germans created bad blood in the late 30's when they openly demanded that the part of the Czechoslovakia, the Sudeten Land, was taken over by Germany. They got their wish at the Munich Conference where the western powers abandoned defense agreements they had with CS and agreed to divide CS on German Protectorate of Bohemia and independent Slovak state with the clause that Germany will get Sudeten Land outright. Western powers hoped that by this agreement they will prevent war. It was in reality a fatal mistake because in late 30's the German army was relatively weak because for a long time after WWI Germany was neutered and could not built and arm strong army. By allowing Hitler to take over Czechoslovakia he gained one of the best armament manufacturing industries and heavy industry producers. On top of that the CS army was disbanded and all the armaments of the CS military transferred to Wehrmacht.

[@user-ul1tj8tu3v]

You know, it's easy for us now to throw accusations and condemnations. In the era of the war there was very little media, written or radio, and that was easily controlled by governments. So a lot could happen behind closed doors or be influenced locally. The first time my father heard a radio broadcast was in the mid 1920s and the transmitter was only 20 miles away but barely audible. One seems to forget these things.

[@kaspararrowitz8730]

"Czech Hell"! This word is painfully imprinted into Estonian historical memory as local Czech partisans catched and slaugthered thousands of Estonian unarmed soldiers after World War II, begiining of May. This stories are full of untold horror and this shows how low human being can fall if they feel themselves unpunished... One thing was what happened to Estonian former frontline soldiers, usually young and fit and being prepared to die anyway (in descent battle, though). But things what Czechs did to local German women and childern makes even today word "Czech" to me something animal-like... Even if I know, that not only this nationality was involved in hideous crimes against humanity... But this is our personal story.

[@alanfitzgeraldsr2201]

Germany should have never started the war and that would never have happened 😢

[@hellohell1735]

zumal dies erst nach dem 30 april 1945 begann . das morden, schänden auf alles was deutsch war und für deutschland gedieht hatte. was alles geschehen ist, will ich nicht aufschreiben, es sprengt bis unersättliche, das grausame, was diese menschen damals getan haben. das koriose ist, das vor diesem 30 april mit allen deutschen zusammen gelebt wurde und das deutsche verbrechen nach dem krieg angezeigt wurden, alle nur die der tschechen nicht...

[@gerrybailey447]

Why are the Palestinians paying the price for what happened to the Jews? The IDF are no better than the Einsatzgruppen in their treatment of the men, women and children in Gaza and the West Bank. People murder people because they can and they like it. History is never just history, someone else's history is now someone's present and future.

[@adamlibertoski1460]

They didn’t start the war like you think. They were provoked into it, for reasons that we are not taught. Victors write the history.

[@calgaryalberta4622]

Just curious , at the end of the war how many of the Jewish faith from before the war were still alive in Estonia ?🤔 you run with those big dogs , your gunna have those big fleas

[@campbellmorrison8540]

Im surprised Germany didn't fund this and actually take over working out where they could be buried. Its very nice of the town to offer this but I cant see why the Czech's should have to fund this.

[@franceyneireland1633]

One article from 2008 The first of some 4,500 remains of German soldiers and several hundred civilians, who died on Czech territory during the Second World War, were buried in the west Bohemian town of Cheb last week. Fuehrer's organization has said it will provide one million euros ($1.6 million) for renovations to the town cemetery, in addition to financing the neighboring portion for the German soldiers. An estimated 178,000 German soldiers died during World War II in former Czechoslovakia fighting Soviet forces from the north and east and US forces from the West. Other German soldiers who fell in Czechoslovakia have already been buried in the existing 10 military cemeteries around the country.

[@guytwombly2955]

They should have requested the bodies be returned to Germany???

[@watkinsrory]

@@guytwombly2955 There were lots of Cech's fighting for Germany. Many might not have been German.

[@vh5663]

@@watkinsrory Not true. While lots of Sudeten Germans fought for Germany, Czechs did not. Or at least not those Czechs who were not seen germanised enough, and those who were didnt have a choice anyway, as Bohemia and Moravia basically became a part of Germany, not just an occupied territory. You probably mistake it with Slovaks, who showed their gratitude to Czechs for freeing them from Hungary by leaving Czechs and forming their own "independent" clerofascist state, whos soldiers did fight alongside Germans.

[@watkinsrory]

@vh5663 It was one country. I am not breaking them down into ethnic groups.

[@martinspalding374]

history is written by the victor ..... you only hear about the bad things the enemy did

[@vh5663]

Ohhh, ok, so tell me what good nazis did to anyone, huh? What is the hidden truth behind "the bad things"?

[@rosesandsongs21]

It depends on your sources, YT is viciously anti-German, even the truth is forbidden.

[@renee1961]

Good evening, and Thank You. Your videos are Important, Informative, and Educational. I appreciate every one.

[@cedhome7945]

Given a rifle and a weapon? Who writes the script for this ?

[@2101case]

That was awkward.

[@jasonmiller5369]

LOL!

[@TonyZlatko]

@cedhome7945 👍👍👍👍👍👍 Given a rifle and a weapon.. Script writer of this jewel ?.... A guy not knowing difference between crap and shit.....,

[@therideneverends1697]

probably AI

[@alfredbester.psycorps]

Could be other weapons such as machine guns or Panzerfausts

[@dietmarbottcher5900]

I wonder if now in 2024 the Benes decrees are still not revoked. According to these decress any murder of a german person by a Czech after 1945 was officially permitted / not prosecuted.

[@williamwaits]

You can say these men fought for Hitler, as an American I don't see it that way. These men fought for Germany, they should be buried with dignity in Germany. I think that's what they would have wanted. RIP

[@johnzubil2875]

they fought for Germany because Hitler brainwashed them into a nonsensical war.

[@patrickparsons2378]

Actually they did fight and die for Hitler as they took a personal oath to him as Fuehrer, an oath which merged Fuehrer and Fatherland together in the person of Adolf Hitler. The German Whermacht and Waffen SS both fought a war of racial extermination in the East. Contrary to the post-war whitewashing of the Whermacht by the Americans and British, the German army committed or participated in as many atrocities as the SS. They were not ordinary soldiers committing atrocities in the heat of battle of even in the elation after the battle (as the Americans, British and other allies did). The German forces committed atrocities out of a deep seated notion of the racial and ideological 'other'. The Soviet forces, if they massacred them (which is unproven) treated them the way they deserved. No one had any sympathy for the Germans or their allies during and after the collapse of the Reich. I've spoken to several British veterans who entered Belsen extermination camp in 1945 and their attitude to such a discovery would have been unchanged by the decades: they should have killed more. Unless you were in the war against National Socialist Germany you cannot understand the hatred felt by all allied soldiers for the German military and civilians. Why do you think that it was seriously discussed in the last months of the war that Germany and the German nation should not be allowed to exist ever again?

[@JamesJones-dr3mf]

They fought for their country,not so much for Hitler,just as all soldiers these men aswered the call

[@pissfather6798]

they had to swear a literal oath of allegiance to hitler, so yes they absolutely fought for him and his vision of „großdeutschland“ you ignoramus

[@user-cm8en8or1p]

No More Brother Wars

[@454FatJack]

Soviet style enemy grave’s dissapear .

[@BladesRKing]

Never ceases to amaze me how ignorant people’s comments can be.

[@joe-id5pb]

Such as yours?

[@jammer3618]

Were the remains identified?

[@leslietarkin5705]

No, they weren't.

[@FeliciaZieff-kb2hu]

F them. They murdered my family.

[@GaryCameron]

I am surprised there wasn't a clamor of people hoping for some clue about a long deceased relative.

[@Kleicomolo]

@@GaryCameronWho wants anything to do with a shut-in relative who only lays about all day and night?

[@Au60schild]

​@@GaryCameronTwo generations after one's passing one is essentially lost to the world, even to one' own lineage. The only way to be remembered is to either do great good or, regrettably, do great evil, such as by Hitler. It's sad.

[@specialse]

thought this story was a bit far fetched , but after some research it does turn out to be true , fair bit of info on the net about it . strange , another ww11 story ive never heard of .

[@suqmadique9762]

ww11 was kicked off when the mongols invaded the south pole with a mech army while the innuit had to make a stand with their mole drones

[@peterdebrie]

Its rightwing extremists trying to make nazi germany look good.

[@Axteffekt]

@@suqmadique9762 Don't forget the huge role the Aborigines played in that. Their advanced technologies made it much harder for the mechs.

[@rosesandsongs21]

@@suqmadique9762 World War Eleven, already? Gosh, I guess I missed a few, those new Abori-Gol Relay Stations must have froze solid,

[@kirkstinson7316]

Wait. 60 years after the war? So this all happened 20 years ago?

[@rb239rtr]

The German wartime graves association led a project in the mid-1990s to exhume the remains, which include soldiers who fought across eastern Europe in the war, with plans to bury them in a Prague cemetery until a lack of funds halted the plan. These soldiers died in battle at various locations

[@samsum3738]

The bodies were found in 2006 , so they disussed this 59 years after the war 's end .

[@Porkypies6m]

@@rb239rtr lack of funds ..no.... understand that a certain demo ruleed Germ before33 and took it back in45

[@brunokirchensittenbach9294]

…Uhhhh 🐖💨

[@pablotown77]

War is hell, sometimes the grouches and resentments last many centuries.

[@rogerdudra178]

Greetings from the BIG SKY. I never heard much of other places, but around here the dead were left to each side of a conflict.

[@tomweickmann6414]

Could you imagine living today in say.....Hamburg, receiving a letter: "We found your Great Grandfather. Please come down to claim the remains"😮

[@mausgrau]

Hello Tom, my grandfather died as a German soldier in Russia in 1943 and is buried there. I have a sketch of the military cemetery. These are definitely fields today. The place is called Oskotchnoye near Kharkov - If someone would find him or dug him up, I would be honored to pick him up. To get him home.

[@worldwarwill1278]

@@mausgrau Do you know what Regiment he was in, if not there is a chance I could find out for you. I would need his name and date of birth.

[@mausgrau]

@@worldwarwill1278 Hello, that's very kind of you. Yes, I have all the data. From the archives of the German Wehrmacht. They sent me everything in detail. Where and when he fought. I have the letter my grandma received after he died. typed out and of course censored by the Wehrmacht (even with the sketch of the grave in the military cemetery). If they somehow discover the graves I will be notified. Thank you very much.

[@worldwarwill1278]

@@mausgrau Hi there. That is great you have so much information and to a have a sketch of the grave in the military cemetery is amazing. I had a look for Oskotchnoye (Oskotchnoje) on a map and it might be located 15km southeast of the city of Prokhorovka. There is also only one soldier I found at that location, Kurt V.. I am a mod on the German documents section of the warrelics forum, so if you ever need help, please let me know. Kind regards, Will.

[@mausgrau]

@@worldwarwill1278 Hello Will, thank you again for your support. When I researched 15 years ago and told my family my results, no one could believe it. My mother and my aunt somehow ignored it. That showed me how traumatized they were still. I think it's time to let the story rest. His name was Willi Garitz, father of two daughters and married to my grandma Klara. Kind regards from Germany, Heiko.

[@barryobee1544]

Nice history lesson!

[@user-uj7dm8jy6z]

locals still afraid of some old bones

[@daleburrell6273]

..."BEING AFRAID" HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!!! LIKE I SAID BEFORE: THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF HARD FEELINGS- AND SOME PEOPLE HAVE LONG MEMORIES...!!!

[@bennettbush3906]

@@daleburrell6273Doesn’t matter, they were soldiers, you give them the respect of a proper Christian burial

[@stephengunrunnerhanson3550]

No medals or dog tags

[@bennettbush3906]

They were most likely taken, they take them off bodies so they can be recorded as dead.

[@robertjohnston8876]

The Allied cemeteries are gorgeous. Beautifully maintained The German cemeteries are not maintained, you can feel the sadness

[@renee1961]

You have so much information I've never heard! Thank you for Teaching me.

[@saminaneen]

@renee1961,,FAKE STORY, completely untrue, like NOBODY, ever knew that 4000 dead bodies, were, in a small factory, Yeah Right!!!!! Super clickbait

[@deeem2628]

Find and watch a documentary called Europa the last battle.

[@rchrdjms62]

I saw another video recently or some Germans had been buried in a common grave and a civilian cemetery. They were disinterred and taken to be re-buried in a German military cemetery. Some people hate too long. It is not out of the realm of possibility that the common soldiers even of the enemy were honored after being killed.

[@rosesandsongs21]

Propaganda killed all respect for the enemy.

[@WTU208]

Better to leave this realm on your feet than live on your knees.

[@chrishamilton2527]

the narrators voice and the way he stretches some woooooooords

[@richardsimms251]

Amazing video RS. Canada

[@ronalddesiderio7625]

War is Hell

[@Porkypies6m]

War Is a Racket ...is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient.

[@seanbay6622]

and hell is the grave

[@xvsj-s2x]

All soldiers who served their respective countries are entitled to an honorable burial after dying. Just My opinion 😢

[@JeremyGurganus]

I believe the remains should have been buried in Germany.

[@jammer3618]

I totally agree.

[@franceyneireland1633]

There are Canadians from WW1 and WW2 buried in military cemeteries in France, Italy, Sicily, Normandy, Netherlands, Germany, England, Belgium, Denmark, Hong Kong, Japan. What I find sad is when there are no remains therefore their is only their name and rank on a memorial wall or when they are buried but not identified. My cousin's father landed on D Day June 6th, injured on Sept 6th transported to hospital in France and died on Sept 11 1944 is buried in France. My cousin became an orphan age 5 or 6. as her mother had died in 1942.

[@benjaminguilatcoiv]

​@@franceyneireland1633 the earth is the inheritance of all men, women and children.. the least one can be given is a burial, be it in any land. For isn't the Creator's land our common inheritance? And no matter the mistaken beliefs of self serving 'malthusian' materialists, the earth is more than wide enough to accommodate everyone.

[@Porkypies6m]

the people that controlGnow dont want any honoring of dead soldiers that sacrificed their lives to protect the nation...i will leave u to guess who they are

[@14thCenturyHare]

​@@Porkypies6m You mean, non-Nazis?

[@ftdefiance1]

It's interesting to see how different nations handle this. The U.S. hasn't left a remain behind since Korea. The Army even offered families to return remains shortly after WW2

[@Utubexpert-kx7ew]

It is a fact that there was not much concern about the regular German soldiers from the Wehmacht, because most of the people only say the Waffen SS doing most of the atrocities against the civilian population under their control, just like the murderous Israeli IDF in Palestine today's Palestine.

[@5150Bud]

@@Utubexpert-kx7ewthe IDF is just defending their country and protecting their civilians. Get over it.

[@user-je9gs7we1q]

​@@5150BudThe IDF are committing a genocide get over it .

[@STdoubleDs]

@@Utubexpert-kx7ew All sides committed war crimes.

[@MiloMALONE3435]

During Vietnam war. The Cong would say they were more terrified after killing American soldiers/because they said our military would act like a nest of angry wasp and holy hell would rain down on them in americas effort to return the fallen soldiers/

[@victormagness9970]

I am a member of the United States military shirt in combat born in Germany right now, Air Force Base, USA military base remain after the war, and surprise that they weren’t sent back to Germany to be entered in Barry identified that alone as an atrocity sad they should go back to Germany where they were born at if they were born there it’s crazy anyhow, good production thank you so much for the info. God bless and God bless the fallen soldiers on both sides, ridiculous war, and we’re at it again. Men will never learn thanks again.

[@FreeAmerican-mm2my]

I believe you are American because your comment makes no sense.

[@juliaforsyth8332]

So many Allied still in European graves too.

[@deeem2628]

As long as peasants keep putting on the uniform, it will never end!

[@robertclark972]

"shirt in combat " - please translate ?

[@thejohn6614]

This 9 minute video could have been said in 30 seconds. It could have been said with all of the information in a minute and a half or less.

[@alanwagstaff16]

It is all in the past and is in the pages of history . Respect should be given to the fallen no matter on which side they fought for . It's the human thing to do .

[@barryobee1544]

How about their next of kin? Did they try to id bodies and notify?

[@Eric-kn4yn]

ID bodies after decades ? Im not sure whats in those coffins ashes or skeletal remains dust to dust.

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Elderly by this time and too expensive. Difficult to identify by this time assuming they had dogtags still with them.

[@HistoryChannel1776]

Controversial? They were ordinary soldiers . Don’t matter who they fought for you give them the respect

[@hisoverlorduponhigh90]

So many lies repeated against these brave German soldiers.

[@ttnyny]

Interesting story, but it's told with a fair amount of redundancy. I think it could have been presented quite fully and effectively in 5 to 6 min. rather than in 9 min.

[@musclecarbear4704]

I’m so glad these men were given a final resting place. RIP 🎚️

[@thehappyclam3942]

That resting place should have been a garbage dump. BIH

[@fastyaveit]

To all that are seeing a half-naked bot answer, don't reply to it or click on the profile, report it as unwanted content.

[@tomweickmann6414]

What the hell is a half naked bot? Not all of us are up with the lingo.

[@HomeSkillit]

​@@tomweickmann6414bots are accounts being operated by scammers. Usually 99% of bots use stolen pictures of girls who post half naked pictures on line. Don't click on links ok.

[@dodobirdtime]

​@@tomweickmann6414 there's a ton of robot accounts that have half naked women as profile pictures, they share scam links and malware. The accounts aren't actually run by anyone, they're ran by a server they just copy other commenters comments

[@saminaneen]

@fastaveit, Yo momma, was unwanted content, Babyboy

[@daveyvane9431]

Its meaningless to argue who was more wrong, criminal, or evil. Everyone is. And it doesn’t matter anymore. It is history.

[@wayinfront1]

It's not ''inside of'', it's just inside. The 'of' is wholly redundant.

[@svart_kors]

r.i.p. soldiers.

[@mpravica]

RIP victims of the soldiers.

[@bobbylee2853]

They fought the enemies of the state like all soldiers have done throughout history.

[@ives3572]

"And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb a beauty weeps the brave." - Joseph Rodman Drake

[@ortolitore1522]

Being soldiers in German uniforms does not mean that they were Nazis or even Germans. They could also have been young men from German-occupied countries (for example from the Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) who were forcibly mobilized. It even happened that brothers from the same family with the same parents had to fight against each other in different armies (these countries were alternately occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union). These men did not have much choice - join the occupation army or get shot. Men also voluntarily joined the army to fight against the communist regime. Have you heard about the Czech Hell? It was the extrajudicial killing of hundreds of captured soldiers of the 20th Estonian division of the German Waffen-SS by Czech partisans in May 1945.

[@fastyaveit]

Once a soldier dies, he isn't the enemy, he is an eternal brother to all those who went before and after him.

[@JoanKieffer]

How many Jewish ✡️ people did these soldiers kill ??

[@larryinfantino379]

I’m an eternal brother to dead Waffen SS?

[@GenericYoutubeGuy]

@@larryinfantino379but also George Washington, William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, George Patton, Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower, from this perspective.

[@arsenalgaming5431]

False

[@antoniomanuelcaetano6770]

Se quiser pode ser um eterno irmão dos que praticaram o massacre de Mi Lai, sempre são americanos uns anjinhos igualmente.

[@PlayinDead]

I guess only certain comments about this can be posted here.

[@myview5840]

YT AI censors everything

[@Leosarebetter]

@@myview5840 Shockingly so, I cant even post facts from certain agencies. Recently I commented on blackrock (the investment company) & their obsession with dei, using only facts and got a 24 hour ban.

[@Dianikes]

@@myview5840 yea blame it on AI

[@pissfather6798]

nah you see plenty of apologia everywhere in this comment section, actually made me throw up in my mouth

[@timothyfoley3000]

And the problem is??

[@brien656]

This is another case of those those who win write the history and everything else gets swept under the rug and forgotten. In my opinion the real winners are those who profit from it, not the countries or those who died for it. Millions die on both sides but none of those who profited from it, hardly ever have to face thier death in a war. If the cost is too much those who do die, end up buried in a hole somewhere.

[@thelastjohnwayne]

The Wehrmacht (German pronunciation: [ˈveːɐ̯maxt], lit. 'defence force') were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine (navy) and the Luftwaffe (air force).

[@cultofpersonalit1888]

"Defense force" lol.

[@TheAquaMammal]

@@cultofpersonalit1888 "defence" in England.

[@bryonslatten3147]

Wehr: war Macht: maker Wehrmacht: Warmakers

[@chrisf1163]

@@bryonslatten3147 I see you flunked German.

[@conveyor2]

@@bryonslatten3147

[@samsungtap4183]

I saw a Soviet soldier interviewed and he said his company murdered 500 WaffenSS in one da the prisioners were bound of cours and one by one pushed onto a landing in a huge factory where their throats were cut. So it was cut..push, cut..push. he said when your arm got tired you were replaced. Asked if had any remorse he said NONE and that he would do the same again.

[@Youngstown529]

And no way to ID any of them right? We imagine that all soldiers had doglegs or other IDs, but after 60 years and following a rough death and at least one move from the site of death, those things were gone?

[@tiredlawdog]

With all the grief the Germans dealt out to the Czechs, I'm surprised the remains didn't wind up in a land fill where they murdered all the Jews.

[@SolarGeneral]

Yawn 🥱

[@markdean1984]

Don't worry the WW2 stories is good money for present days jews

[@tiredlawdog]

@@SolarGeneral It never really happened, right?

[@SolarGeneral]

@@tiredlawdog I’m sure it did. I just don’t care about the “dUh eViL gErMaNs” and what they did.

[@jaydee8337]

The retributions by Cz citizens at the end of WW2 against the germans for imprisonment and Murder was horrendous. SS especially buried their insignia, rings and uniforms prior to attempting to escape, and those captured were brutally tortured in various barbaric ways , in order to cause the most pain to their victims. Nobody was ever punished for these murders, and I don't blame them for not wanting these 4000 to be interred on Cz. Soil. One crime especially heinous was several towns destroyed, and 5000 innocent civilians murdered after Reynard Heydrich's murder in the streets of Prague by two Cz OSS trained commando's. They were captured eventually and behedded by Guillotine,and then put on display. One good thing about the occupation was, that today the Cz. Republic has the most beautiful 😅women in all of Europe. Unsure why that is, but is true to this day.

[@petertarasenko2504]

The two commandos committed suicide during a raging battle in a church crypt with German forces after being betrayed by a Czech colleague. The two were not captured alive and the nazis cut their heads off and put them on display.

[@jaydee8337]

@petertarasenko2504 Actually one was badly wounded and captured unconcious,and taken to an SS Hospital, but, never regained conciousness ....the other committed suicide in the church. Weather the unconscious one was guillotine prior to death, is not known, or I just can't recall. They published a book about the story, I have it somewhere. Post war the staff car was located in a wrecking yard , purchased, and restored. It had been used after the war, repainted, like a light blue, and is still around. Thanks for the correction. There were two others involved, where they ended up, I can't recall, but 7 fought like 500 SS troops at the church, or catacombs. They are still celebrated today in Prague, but the price the cz's paid was dear. I personally knew one of the OSS that hunted the hangman, and in searching for him, searched heydrichs home and saw all his uniforms etc in his closets. His family was home, but the guy never thought to take any souvenirs. The agents name was Bill Mark's, a jew. He post war, became an attorney. I think he died in the 80's or early 90's. It's been to long to recall, but I knew his kids .heydrichs grave was recently robbed for souvenirs, he was wearing a black uniform with extra awards, and his fuhererdegen, although, it is rumored himmler switched swords with his interred in the casket. The crime is still unsolved.

[@jaydee8337]

@@petertarasenko2504 I think Google has stopped me from commenting now, as they can't handle the truth, and warned me not long ago they would. Free speech is being attacked daily. We all should have a right to our comments....Google is already being sued as a result.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

The truth is of course that part of what today is the Czech Republic is historically German. These border regions were part of Prussia /the Austrian Empire for centuries. The people living there for the last 1000 years were German. That is the historical context to the Munich Agreement of 1938. They did not fight for Hitler, they fought for Germany. These soldiers were not Nazi soldiers they were German soldiers. Conscripts serving their country regardless of their political affiliation. Unquestionably these soldiers had surrendered to the Russians and were killed by them. This video reflects substantial ignorance about German history and the actions of the victors of WW2 and their war crimes.

[@gerardo8av]

Most certainly they should be sent to Germany, which should cover all the expenses of the ordeal

[@user-ul1tj8tu3v]

60 divisions of Cossacks faught for Germany against Russia. At the end of the war many, who surrendered to the British in Austria, were handed back to the Russians. They were slaughtered by the Russians.

[@markjamison9677]

We handed over prisoners to the Russians as well . They were shot just a few blocks away from the shipyard when they returned .

[@danbunge9787]

And, they are still slaughtering

[@vigigejmer9813]

are you sure there were 60 divisions?

[@user-ul1tj8tu3v]

@@vigigejmer9813 They were never full divisions, a lot were cavalry, and due to their tasks operated in smaller groups. If I am right countries like the USA would have 18,000 men in a full division. This was not the case. I think they would be tasked in smaller groups using the term to confuse opponents.

[@user-ul1tj8tu3v]

@@vigigejmer9813 they say divisions but they would have probably been small brigades. I read the book 30 years ago. The total number was, I think, 170,000 men.

[@mrhamburger6936]

In those days everybody was part of the devil's chess game

[@Troy_Tempest]

The Heer was the German army, not the Wehrmacht. Wehrmacht means armed forces, comprising the Heer, the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine. Aside from this, great video, thank you

[@geronimo5537]

since we do not know who these men are nor their actions per individual. we must assume they fought honorably for their country and give them a respectful burial.

[@jpakos6701]

Heydrich used to call them " my Czechs " ....like pets ...or worse of course ....you get what u give ...

[@Porkypies6m]

u believe what u are told

[@marcgrenier9431]

There are few good guys in any war.

[@martinbachmann6283]

US Navy vet here. I've always GREATLY admired the sacred custom of burial of Her military persons, that our English Cousins in The United Kingdom have practiced over many years: "burying Her Fallen in the country(ies) WHERE they fall."

[@noshergillespie7721]

You mean uk cousins you in educated man .

[@noshergillespie7721]

You haven't a clue about the uk ,it isn't England it's made up of four countries you obviously didn't get a good education and didn't see many countries in your career.

[@DB-po8rs]

How soon they forget. Doomed to repeat. 😪

[@SolarGeneral]

Yawn 🥱

[@narancauk]

They have already

[@jaynewton5278]

All across the 🌎, in every country, we are all brothers and sisters together, so why does this immense one family do what we do to each other 😢

[@nigelsmith2457]

We're not one family. We're not one mind, and we're not one soul. It's up to every individual to decide what is wrong and what is right, and to stand up for their beliefs, not bow down to threats and bullying. The cowards are the ones who go to war, not the ones who incur the wrath of their countrymen by refusing to do what they know to be wrong.

[@jaynewton5278]

@@TheThirstyOtter Thank you 😊

[@dominicdavino252]

Simple. First John 5 -19.

[@asmodeus0454]

They were soldiers that fought for their country. They were _not_ criminals.

[@bicivelo]

Why didn’t they ask the few remaining concentration camp survivors of ww2 what to do with the bodies? I’m sure they would have an idea or two.

[@alariankalwozeth9415]

Anyone know if DNA was taken or other tags were on the remains to make an effort to ID them. So many German families looking for relatives since WW2.

[@Thehiddentruths-rj4fn]

I don't know whether they found tags on the bodies or not, but what I know is that German soldiers wore ID tags, unlike Soviet soldiers.

[@franceyneireland1633]

@@Thehiddentruths-rj4fn I seen an article where German soldiers were found about five years ago in Southern France, they died in a conflict with Devil's Brigade. There was a lot of research done to identify them, of the nine soldiers found one was not identified, seven were Polish and one was German. Some of their dog tags were missing, the last digit number of their ID was missing and surnames were misspelled on records.

[@Thehiddentruths-rj4fn]

@@franceyneireland1633 There is a video on KZbin about that. It is called "La découverte de 14 corps de soldats allemands près de Nice - Fosse commune à Villeneuve-Loubet" by Crocodile Tear en Français.

[@askorutin2576]

@@franceyneireland1633what? Out of 8 Nazis 5 were Polish soldiers were fighting allies in German uniform?! And Poland somehow is a winner in WW2 with huge territorial gains they did nothing to liberate on their own?!

[@franceyneireland1633]

@@askorutin2576 Who said they were Nazi? In countries Germany occupied during WW2 there was conscription into the Wehrmacht. During the Battle of Britain there was 145 Polish fighter pilots in the RAF defending Britain. In 1944, approx. 195,000 Polish Armed Forces were under British Command in Europe. After Germany broke the The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with the Soviets by invading, Stalin turned to the allies for help. Churchill worked an agreement with Stalin to release the Polish military to fight under Britain. Stalin promised to allow free elections in Poland but failed to ever follow through on it. When the war ended the Polish who fought to defeat Germany if they return to Poland they were persecuted, killed and sent to gulags by the Soviets.

[@cbm2156]

Why not send the German Soldiers back to Germany for interment. That should be a no brainer. Not sure why they had to think about it.

[@mikepette4422]

the czechs killed my grandfather after the war. he was an older draftee and actually a czech patriot but because he was a Sudeten German he was drafted into the Luftwaffe as a soldier but all he did was run the commissary on a Norwegian airfield and everyone knew that. But they murdered him anyway. Also my mother saw Polish and Russian soldiers machine gun 100's of German soldiers into ditches about 8 weeks after the war ended. She saw this as her family was being evicted from her city in Silesia and sent to Western germany as so many Germans were when the eastern parts of Germany were given to Poland as compensation.

[@cevapipapi6167]

could and should have been a 3 min video. why are you dragging this out??

[@jaymorris3468]

How did they die, need more info

[@SolarGeneral]

Bolsheviks

[@Eric-kn4yn]

​​@@SolarGeneralin war have a guess violently.

[@SolarGeneral]

@@Eric-kn4yn by whom though?

[@bmschopf]

Any chance of finding out how is now clearly buried.

[@Porkypies6m]

look up Katyn massacre to give u an idea of what happened

[@narancauk]

That happens when you attack Yugoslavia

[@gkmmlc]

Or even Czechoslovakia.

[@mustlovedogs272]

They went through Yugoslavia like a hot knife through butter. Russia and the U.S. did the hard work of freeing your country.

[@jovan5988]

No US soldier ever set foot in Yugoslavia. Maybe just Harisson Ford.

[@narancauk]

@@mustlovedogs272 US never set foot on Serbian soil and ''librated' muslims in Kosovo and bosnia'

[@narancauk]

@@mustlovedogs272 In days when Serbia was alone(drunkards Yeltsin was in power) basically helped separatist states (Yugoslavian Dixies).I would not be so proud of it F117A.In effect helped Germans to exact revenge over Serbs fi 1914 and 1941

[@jonb3311]

After what had happened during the 5 years of the occupation, I find it repugnant to attach the word 'honourable' to any of these German soldiers. Following the death of Heydrich, thousands of innocent citizens were murdered by the Germans. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Reinhard_Heydrich#Consequences

[@thesapper]

Agreed 100%!

[@dreamdancer8212]

I always found it interesting how some people always know about other people's guilt and who did right and wrong. They themselves of course are always without any fail or guilt.

[@thesapper]

@@dreamdancer8212 not sure I understand. Are you saying that Nazi's were cool and did the right thing?

[@gregcampbell619]

@@dreamdancer8212 No one innocent, yet only one race killed millions of jews

[@fordwk]

@@thesapper So everyone was a NAZI who was German...got it.

[@robertjohnston8876]

I had an elderly friend who was in the wharmacht. He hated the SS. Best day of his life was when he was captured and spent the war as a POW in Canada. Spent the rest of his life in Canada.

[@rosesandsongs21]

I am Canadian and I am not anti German, I try to remain neutral so in that sense, I probably explored the German version of the war more than most. Last week, by mere curiosity, I did a search for pictures of military cemeteries from both wars and both sides... I shouldn't have done that, I came out of it feeling terribly sad, I cannot understand how those young boys who died 80 years ago fighting for their country like anybody else are still hated so much that no one wants to honor them or take care of their graves.

[@christopherdwyer7570]

These men went to war for their country and gave the ultimate sacrifice. Good story, poor delivery.

[@samsum3738]

No , they went to war for a political party . The Devil ' s political party . Big difference .

[@askorutin2576]

Are you rewriting history and whitewashing nazism or just have no clue what you are talking about?! They went to war for their country?! What were they doing in other people’s country murdering and raping? They went to kill and rob, enslave Slavic people (including Czechs) they regarded as animals.

[@johnbrownlee7623]

How did they die?.............

[@maxiegrobner9018]

Probably lead poisoning.

[@johnbrownlee7623]

@@maxiegrobner9018 lol............

[@sajbr]

@@johnbrownlee7623 look at the video omg

[@Eric-kn4yn]

In war violently dummy.

[@tomoplt5437]

Info from local news (ČT 24, 26.5. 2008): The remains of German soldiers in the Czech Republic have been exhumed since the early 1990s by the Czech company PARGENT for the German People's Association for the Care of War Graves. This association, which paid for all the work connected with the exhumation as well as the subsequent examination of the remains, identification and reburial, requested exhumations throughout the country, but also in Poland or Russia. If the buried person was identified and had relatives in Germany, the association offered them that they could claim the remains and bury them in Germany. For others, dignified burial grounds were established on the basis of international conventions, throughout Europe. According to custom, soldiers are buried in the country where they died. According to available information, the remains of about 22,000 German soldiers were exhumed for the German People's Association, of which 18,000 were buried in new graves. Tens of thousands more are believed to be still awaiting exhumation. In the Czech Republic, a large cemetery for German soldiers was to be established in Prague. In 2000, Prague councilors decided that the remains of German soldiers would be buried in the former Evangelical cemetery in Strašnice, opposite the crematorium. However, the decision to entrust the long-disused cemetery to the People's Association for the Care of War Graves caused a wave of dissent. First of all, war witnesses and relatives of victims of the German occupation were upset that the cemetery is located directly opposite the symbolic burial ground of the victims of Nazism and only a few meters from Hagibor, which was a gathering place for people transported to concentration camps during the war. The project was ultimately canceled due to a lack of money, as the association calculated the costs at approximately 72 million crowns.

[@petermallm149]

I am not surprised to hear this. After the war had ended approx. 5 Mio. Germans got missing as refugees for ever, most of them civilians trying to escape to Germany and even today there is little talk about this tragedy at all.....

[@rudolfkraffzick642]

Martial law for Germany was abolished in 1952 by the western allies, by the sovjets in '55. So all these killings of POWs and civilians were war crimes but fell under amnesty.

[@KUCHENSOEHNE]

Smells like a war crime

[@tuneplay77]

The atrocities the germans committed, can't be compared to any events after the war was coming to an end, the germans committed the worst heinous atrocites as the ss, german army knew they were lost, so there can be no comparison of wrong doing on the allies side, none at all.

[@deram814]

Wrong. Atrocities are atrocities. Some 2 million German civilians were murdered in the wake of expulsions from Eastern Europe. Guilt is an individual thing, never collective.

[@finddeniro]

Guitar theme...from.. " The Deer Hunter " ..

[@irenehartlmayr8369]

It does not seem to occur to anybody that the soldier pointing his bayonet at the man holding his hands up,is an American soldier ! Whereas the story is about incidents that took place during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia !!!

[@harrisbobroff9813]

They are dead and gone...

[@mikebon8352]

If they had any sign of conscience or humanity in them... they would/could have returned those remains... each day between 1945 and 2007. If not then something dubious is goin on.. with those slavic czechs...

[@Triggernlfrl]

If you had any sign of conscience or humanity..... You would not made this remark. If so then something dubious is goin on..with reality free mike....

[@franceyneireland1633]

Since the mid 1990s the Prague firm Pargent has been exhuming the remains for the German organisation Der Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, or People's Association for the Care of Wartime Graves. Pargent arranged for the bodies to be exhumed from mass graves scattered around the Czech Republic. How they ended up in a fixtures and fittings factory in Usti nad Labem is anybody's guess.

[@angloedu5499]

Grandma said grandpappy was killed at El Alamein, they were sadly eaten by vultures and so had empty graves. I can’t imagine what it would of been like to live through all that. But like so many I’ve spoken to, they had fond moments that kept them from going insane. I think it’s true, good thoughts prepare us for the bad ones, balancing act.