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tv   Buried Found and Returned Home  Deutsche Welle  April 8, 2024 3:15am-3:45am CEST

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missing since world war 2 told me all as well for myself and the team, thanks for watching the project. cassandra, re determined through our investigation that has below was operating like a global drug cart that somebody normally theaters, organization. the object to financially drain has gone up and bring them down to the team. agents from the american drug enforcement agency means as well as another whole level. they wanted to go after their money. they had from lies themselves. we needed to reveal that so world and to their own people. why did the us government suddenly shut down project cassandra in 2016?
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03 pod documentary series. i'm asking has paula dot may 4th on d, w. the, the city goose news. c c. news does need to boost their students name is get this new router. and so on the back of course, cuz and this comes come a money order about senior advisors. dennis as looks good on his age of and photo citizen. you know, it's a bit of a turn in austin. that's my design and still on the lease is just turned on and
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probably some of the sky. and so i'm so sorry the, the suitcase le, unnoticed for decades in the attic of a judge, choose parish house. oh god. it's faith the suitcase was handed over to the brandon, the branch of the german wal grades commission for all of it, but i talked and catches and cops. it's like opening a time capsule. a travel alarm clock.
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it contains extremely personal items on the web at buying time. somebody and his name, they smell of us and death. if you look and the fewer knows, only struggle work and worrying and our role is to relieve him of as much as those as best we can who was the recipient of these lattice and who might still be waiting for an answer. as far as i wanted to see how things are yeah. i hadn't been back since the attack ended all look so dreadful now to this of the main square is unrecognizable for the economies we did. that is the, it's a brief description of what preston looked like. there was an early april 1945 to most people, the year 1945 is history. but to oliver, while i talked, it's like the present day. i'm thinking of the alarm clock. it's all
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a question of time because you forget the present and travel back with all those images created over the course of a lifetime. when you immerse yourself in the subjects, your head gets filled with the images that keep taking you back. and when you read something like that letter, and it says if time is standing still in that side, so what type of 15 the suitcase pin on to answer punch man, 1945 times money was a pasta in the hans mountains. shortly after the 2nd world war, he visited relatives and how the in brandenburg following the battle in and around the town. in april 194540000 were buried in local forests fields and from the ons tides been asked to be transferred to hobo where he began listing these make shift graves. with the help of the judge regional authorities and local businessmen, he created permanent and dignified, resting places for the phone,
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and it became one of jam and his launches cemeteries for the casualties of war. perhaps the items in the suitcases belong to someone buried in the cemetery. they might also have a special significance for someone still alive. vehicles now to the new degree. most of the don't tags belonging to members of the old gym and ami registered in the federal. all kinds in belin, this is a 1st concrete lee. yeah. was it. sorry. 2 soldiers doors, evidently killed departments. only one half of the tag. decide to look, you know, the other half would be left on the body. i'm talking read this later today i received my husbands identification tugs a i n and a notebook website, which probably did not belong to him. some customers, oh my, this must have gotten really well. look, this is a soldiers pay boat,
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though to as easily. mazda holds up to the photo. and so these are his promotions to ss squads. later for head squad leader, me workshop and senior squad leader would flush the photo. wow. with his name and photos. the as, as was originally hitler's baltic on the body of old thing to the bottom as, as a lead to combat falls, notorious for countless atrocities during the war. with his mind, vault to hearts apple also commit to crimes. there is another half of an id tag in the suitcase kind of back. this is, this is from the 6th best as yog document or the humans, meaning it's an ss tag which was split as officially required is, can we get 10 volts?
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is presumably these are holds up as a personal effects footboards are furthest and presumably he'd be listed in the rank cards every year about 35000 people contact the walgreens commission. still in search of missing relatives who applied homes such as by any living relative he could give the as, as pay both to the to this day there was still people buried in the battlefield. so to who are registered as missing your walking, consult sky works for the brunt about walgreens commission and recovers corpses across germany as again well, i know these are supposed to be one over there and then there's another site behind us. but the 2nd buddy don't like it always starts with
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a single boon moment. i'm kind of run northeast and sort of the, the main well, often hastily buried, frankly they died, but the wall graves commission make sure that they finally get a proper grades if possible. an identity for the month there's been a body lying here for almost 80 years. some bones and remains every uniform we discovered here by a crew working on a new bike, the the bank of football and began here near the village of zeno. in april. 1945 more than a 1000000 soviets in german soldiers engaged in a blot bos lobsting of a full days, and claiming close to 100000 lives. the fates of many remains unknown to this day.
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as i mentioned, i do this because there are people waiting for information about those missing. so if even includes my own family that someone from your funeral findings, so determining as many identities as possible, there's a help to take them a fish tank on time. it's not, you know, to, to is if you dimensions ok you walk in because long sky hopes to be able to identify yes and now the full in sonia today, but somebody gives us the duties. so we're guessing to the crucial area where we usually find the id tagging smart if he was wearing one close to the still racks area, we can talk quite sandwich or anything otherwise it's on the chain. it could also be lying by the scope of this is a positive as upper job working by the way. so here we have a voltage once up the board, september 9th, 1917. and these go in the upper salisia. next step is to ask about the lutheran
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cemetery there in poland to put towards i can't find a date of birth for volunteer holds up to the shop. okay. it would step up when i talk needs that date of birth in order to determine who the descent and saw is here. born on september 20th 1929, 161929. would indeed mean he would only have been 16 at his time of death. dss is known to visited schools to recruit boys as young as 14. as the wall progressed, they too was sent into battle, might develop to hold central to being one of those boys. each item raises new questions, questions about a time as con, inch in chaos. when
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a young man likes bound to hold separately, put a photo like this in his surface book. it shows a ditch with dead people, evidently members of the bottom as, as. why would a 16 year old have such a photo on him? the territories, to sort of the only explanation i have is my belief that work and bring out the best and a person leading to acts of heroism. you have enough to side. but also the absolute worst, and the most part there is to and then get enables us to surrender to the lowest of human instincts and think that even with political legitimacy issue. and that's what gone on for the additional you too much. all you all came cost along. sky is still taking up the past around say, little looking for clues to the identity of the dance individual
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listening. i didn't the much speak. we'll need to dig a bit deeper here later. yeah. call me here. there's a here you can see is the joint. well, i'll just get these to pieces like 1st to see along if there are no personal items with a name among the bones finding out who dying to is also impossible. by looking at the metal identification tag. this will nothing and i cannot market the mental talk like that makes it proper signal or good. i'll see what else turns up suddenly he comes across a mountain cable running right through the pelvic bone. so he's not the only one to be digging here recently. this flip, this is bad unless you can forget it. besides this has more of it means that whatever was find here as being thrown away from american or maybe there was even an id tag which is presumably in private hands. now,
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if so well, because i mean that's appalling, would be the helm, it has been preserved with a sizable hole in it, suggesting it was a quick death look into the bundle. sometimes you can still find a name written on the leather inside the helmet. nothing this one, the skeleton is almost complete, but don't clues to the identity of the person unc on this. i think some of it, i think it's in humane and disgusting, but it doesn't surprise me. this can all just push and 75 years after the war. and you see this and different and look because that's where it begins and people looking away because of the tone every year, about 200 new bodies from the war, a re battery didn't hold up the brandon,
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the war brains commission takes care of the cemetery presenting memories for future generations. the guns, i hope you have all of your up line here. frenchman, ukrainians, russians, belgians, dutchman, and polls on a call side by side here. yeah. because they handle those who went through these gates carried within the greatest, sorry, the greatest pain, greatest hope, the greatest faith, the title. but there were also some who learned nothing from history. almost like a speech to know by slit the youngest known victim in the cemetery. was only a day old. now the oldest is 96 years younger. lessons on skin about 18000000 miles when last and the 2nd while on the as in susan hines, there are between one and 25 dead under each grapes down us. so we estimate the
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total number today and 152028000 debt and the cemetery. today, ones this tolls and for the profit attending how the cemetery will remain on forever. the contract to expand known war casualty is paying last respect to this person is a man with no name. there is no remembrance says, what is this done? i need to enter the another suitcase full of homes. perhaps its contents can provide a name for one of those who remain anonymous. i talked believes he has identified a village from one of the photos by an owner in the fonts mountains. that's prompted a visit from pay to name on. he knows the old soldiers burial grounds in that area
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and might be able to match up the photographs, letters and the pay book. the home go from the we found the service book of a young ss member viewing containing of photographs, your car within a very young child by the name of the hotel mental health. and i'm hoping that he's one of the unknown who are re buried from dry on and hold on go back to the phones in idaho, it's up. so that's the latest. and this could be the crucial thing we've found in denture in an envelope marked passenger types with that site and which a taste of done commerce. when i came across your article on the internet, talk to where you talked about adventure. i was thinking, adventure is hardly unusual when done refunds, and then there were these items folded inside a sheet of paper. this,
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this list j is, might look familiar to you because these original photos on places holding the photos page 11 rotatable covering the last days of the wall around the town of danica holder at its center is kind of cool stuff. pay to consider to save. you of in a go to having refused orders to defend the area against the advancing americans. he's coverage cost him his life. the s as executed him in the woods. but no one knows exactly where his remains are buried. presumably, together with all the soldiers and tie each one a pasta in the hot mountains at the time trying to give the buried soldiers a more dignified grate signs. he was able to place find no names on a tip, the crosses, one cross at the inscription on note. while the last 2 memorial crosses,
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without any human remains underneath them. one of those was paternal page, say. 1956, the bodies were moved to a cemetery in duncan book, in the process of list was compiled, defined items found with the dead. it included attention and they were also more remains of unknown sandwiches. it's kind of course it could all just be a giant coincidence with someone simply emptying the whole shelf of a cupboard into the suitcase and not caring about where everything came from. it's kind of all side, perhaps tight. mind kept these things in the suitcase on purpose, posterior. everything connected to the men who fell and cry on an hole in it and put on hold of him for being able to bring the home. we found this apple that showed us to as the 2 men, examine the photos and compare the names and the cases contents with the lists from
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the hans mountains across relics and devotional object to but i can pay to them and makes an initial assessment is good to me, i think the idea is for the speculative, but because none of the names on the list appear to have any connection to tie on an owner in the, in the sun. what have been exciting. that's via the village by them give you is doesn't have to do it right. but staying with the speculations that we're dealing with the 6 on known soldiers. so what if it turns out that these remains belong to those 6 who were subsequently re buried to but the one that would explain type on being in possession of these remains and artifacts. the soldiers were buried as unknown and he took those things to pass. the monitor prior to his lack relocating remains consultancies of 12 years in the german army. as a paramedic, he faced injuries and fatalities in the present day. now he's dealing with dance for many decades ago. chapel from time to time,
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i have some contact with relatives and they come to burial services. and often they'll bring a photo and say, this is how he wants to look which ones on which on the muscles that i've done. my dollars now is really moving to the once a year to newly excavated. i'm buried in one of the war cemeteries that they all ground to the final resting place with dignity most or i looked at the birth date. and some of them were 17 or 18 when they died. i will come so i know that they didn't even know what they were doing there. and they were born and died as human beings born. not to mention
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the peer to if you to it's not my job to see who was a perpetrator or a victim. the job, i think this, we wants to keep the memory alive. there is nothing worse than this looking away and then different is that we see every day in our society. take them outside to coming to absolute anti or advocate. the owner of at lighthouse is looking for information in the federal. all kinds in balance is not able let's yeah, i mean we did find him a lot of things that we have no record of whether he's deceased bishop. unfortunately, we also have no record of whether he was killed in action enough by on fits or what
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happened to him after 43 years. now it's different. the own kind of supports the fact it's recorded in his of his book whether he was shown, test design to or dieting combat will remain a mystery. but one thing is clear from the files valid to hold sample was born not a 1929, but 1922. he made himself a younger possibly to save his own life. but today's meeting is also about examining all the objects from the suitcase. and there was also an on the left with identification tags in the suitcase event, and maybe they can all be assigned to hold. so that's going, that was my assumption was this is the reception company to the yes. and this is a light tank on the hudson. yes. what you already sent me some scans. so we have them deciphered hot and actually found some information on them on compensation for
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my to. and that's what we're for. who the one who's the man's name was corporeal. forensics of a bushing a stops, could fly item in his civilian life. he was a mechanic g, a hobby. it says here that he fell on the 18th of april. 1945 near di, on an horner in the hearts mountains and st. tyson, on your call, the notice came from and tyson on the past. or you mentioned earlier, what you're saying to me. and my guess is that mr. tice months collected the items in this suitcase, after overseeing the burial of the soldiers office, talked to tom and you modem. otherwise you wouldn't have had the dog tags or half of it. gradually, some of the mystery is coming to light. when we have more reports on his passing, his former burial place was outside the dry and in haunted cemetery to read buried in a close cemetery. france, sab, posting a,
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is buried next to 49 others in the drunken book cemetery. so a large part of the items could be from the song trans spelled to hold central to is among beyond the dead. and perhaps the letters and lots of times will find the recipient soft or a medium 18 years. often they were written that will now be the task of the federal all kinds ok and how the that is being further progress. a colleague of all of applied helped recognize the seal in print that was on the bottom that the suitcase, the seal belong to ends to form loose or that is being handed over to his family. dashed on foot there. he was in touch with mister funded, less of the sister from it. and suddenly she opened up and wrote to him about her
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memories from 1945 from one feel. it's easy. does it are seated during thank you for your e mail about the discovery of the ceiling print, which was very moving for mackenzie's portion and i can barely remember, my brother comes, he was 10 years older than you. but as a witness amongst a dentist, i told him, told us as often as he can call them and i can finish rest on the bottom. yet leticia the present to both of them and to the, to 9 to 102 on sunday she did such as president is just for me the nightstand. so i can talk to the system to please get eaten either it will cost me cables in front of the
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