ME-109 wreckage & pilot remaind discovered while metal detecting.

[Peter Laidler]

Apparently the new Germany don't seem to revere the return of their lost war dead like we seem to here and elsewhere. They only bring home those identified by name with living relatives otherwise they go into mass/communal graves locally. Mind you, the OLD Germany knew quite a bit about mass graves. (sorry if that glib remark was offensive to anyone)

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[Surpmil]

Apparently the new Germany don't seem to revere the return of their lost war dead like we seem to here and elsewhere. They only bring home those identified by name with living relatives otherwise they go into mass/communal graves locally. Mind you, the OLD Germany knew quite a bit about mass graves. (sorry if that glib remark was offensive to anyone)

Not in the slightest, though where Jews and other non-combatants were concerned, there was a concerted campaign from 1943 on to dig up their mass graves and burn the remains before the Soviets captured the areas. And of course the Soviets were no strangers to mass graves either.