‘It’s a Huge Cemetery’: Volunteers Search for WWII Soldiers’ Remains in Idyllic German Grain Field

Posted by Jean-Yves on May 6, 2020

Thomas Siepert looks across the verdant grain field, glowing in the sun after a spring thunderstorm, as windmills slowly churn in the distance.

Wild boar piglets trundle across the road into town and a hare pops out and dashes away. Yet the serene scene belies the slaughter there 75 years ago as German troops fought furiously — and futilely — to stave off the Soviet Red Army that was approaching the Nazi capital.

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