microrobert
05-10-2012, 12:23 PM
Tens of thousands of dead Nazis still being repatriated
Tens of thousands of dead Nazi soldiers are still being repatriated from makeshift war graves on the Eastern Front, despite the war having ended more than six decades ago.
More than 700,000 German fighters have been recovered and reburied since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1945, with around 40,000 being exhumed each year, Germany’s War Graves Commission said.
Three million Germans were killed on the Eastern Front, a crucial combat zone between the axis powers and the allies between 1941 and the end of the war. It is considered one of the largest military confrontations in recent history.
Tens of thousands of dead Nazis still being repatriated - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/9256121/Tens-of-thousands-of-dead-Nazis-still-being-repatriated.html)
Tens of thousands of dead Nazi soldiers are still being repatriated from makeshift war graves on the Eastern Front, despite the war having ended more than six decades ago.
More than 700,000 German fighters have been recovered and reburied since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1945, with around 40,000 being exhumed each year, Germany’s War Graves Commission said.
Three million Germans were killed on the Eastern Front, a crucial combat zone between the axis powers and the allies between 1941 and the end of the war. It is considered one of the largest military confrontations in recent history.
Tens of thousands of dead Nazis still being repatriated - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/9256121/Tens-of-thousands-of-dead-Nazis-still-being-repatriated.html)