The Hell where Youth and Laughter go - WWII German cemetery exhumation

A hundred and fifty two German soldiers killed on the Eastern Front are exhumed from a village cemetery where they had been lying in unmarked and forgotten graves since 1945. Of note were two bodies with amputations, some bodies with splints and tourniquets, bodies with severe war wounds, numerous ID tags as well as a few wedding or military rings. The bodies were exhumed in order to be reburied in a large centralised German military cemetery under the care of the Volksbund.
A more in depth analysis of the signs of first aid and surgery visible on some of the bodies can be seen in this follow up video:    • Sawbones 1945 - Archeological evidenc...  

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Exhumation de soldats allemands tués en 1945 sur le front de l'est afin de transférer leur corps dans un cimetière militaire.

Ausbettung von Deutsche Soldaten die in 1945 an der Ostfront gefallen sind.

A Crocodile Tears production documentary

Some of the more thoughtfull comments:

"Somebody loved each of these skeletons and cried when they didn’t come home. Very sad."

"mangled bones, horrific fractures, holes, splintered sculls and permanent grimaces of pain...this is what wars are all about..."

"War, you start out young and strong off to serve your country and end up seventy five years later as a collection of dirty shattered bones in a garbage bag. What's left of you was dug out of some obscure foreign graveyard to be taken to a clean military cemetery with flags flying and patriotic words on marble signs. All of it to deflect from the senseless waste and suffering of war . and try to make right the life that was taken from you."

"We all learn about war, especially ww2 in school. We all have specific picture in our head of how it must have looked like. But seeing theese pictures right here, dead soldierd just lying there and looking up to the sky. This picture alone tears apart my whole point of view. All these wounds, the pain and horror is unfiltered visably and shows you how grose all this is. People dying in the most brutal ways just for politics… i just cant get this in my head…"

"When I was in school, we had always thought of the German WW2 soldiers as evil and sub human... this is an excellent video showing that they were men, the same as everyone else. The one that had been married just prior to the war tugged at my heart."

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