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tv   Buried Found and Returned Home  Deutsche Welle  April 9, 2024 9:30am-10:00am CEST

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megs, that's up to the mid afternoon. does all of 15 minutes useful? or is that i'm was moved to it gets expose, go to lunch. when you find out about all the story info, migraines, reliable news to migrate wherever they may be. the, the city goose, numerous times you see a new screen. it does need to boost their students name is get this new router. and so on the back of course, cuz and just comes comb, a money order in about senior advisors. dennis. i switched the dentist to them, pulled us citizen. you know, it's a bit of
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a turn in austin. that's mind if i'm interested in always case just one done and probably some of the sky and so so, so the, the suitcase la, unnoticed for decades in the attic of a churches parish house. oh god. it's faith of the suitcase was handed over to the brandon, the branch of the german wal grades commission for all of it, but i'd hoped and catch them cods. it's like opening a time capsule. a travel alarm clock.
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it contains extremely personal items worn and weathered by time somebody and his name, they smell of us and death. if you look at the fewer knows only struggle work and worrying into 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? i wanted to see how things are yeah. i hadn't been back since the attack ended all look so dreadful now because of the main square is unrecognizable for the economies we did. that is the, it's a brief description of what preston looked like. it was in early april 1945 years. the most people, the year 1945 is history, but to all of up when i talked,
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it's like the present day. i'm thinking of the alarm clock. it's all 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 isn't really them and it says if time is standing still in that side to look into type, let the student the suitcase pin on to answer punishment. 1945 times, one was a pasta in the hans mountains. shortly off to the 2nd world war, he visited relatives in holiday and brandon by following the battle in and around the town in april 1945, 40000. what? buried in local forests, fields, and from beyond ties meant us to be transferred to hobo where he began listing these makeshift graves. with the help of the church, regional authorities and local businessmen, he created permanent and dignified,
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resting places for the phone, and it became one of jam and his launches cemeteries for the casualties of war. perhaps the items in the suitcase belonged to someone buried in the cemetery. they might also have a special significance for someone still alive. yeah, comes 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 leaf. yeah. much. that's why 2 soldiers to evidently killed departments, only one half of the tag. decide to look. yeah. the other half would be left on the body. i'm talking i can't read this. but of today i received my husbands identification tugs and a note book, which probably did not belong to him. stung customers. oh my,
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this must have gotten really well. look, this is a soldier's table that you see, the mazda holds up to the photo. and so these are his promotions to ss squad later for head squad, leader, me workshop and senior squad leader would flush the photo. wow. with his name and photo the as, as was originally hitler's, bought a bunch of old things that i bought from the s as a lead to combat falls, notorious for countless atrocities during the war to this mine vault to hearts apple also commit to crimes. there's another off of an id tag in the suitcase calling back. this is, this is from the 60 s s ya document or humans, meaning it's an ss tag which was split as officially required is given these 10
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vote this, presumably, these are holds up as of personal effects from parts of furthest. and presumably he'd be listed in the rank cards. every yeah, about 35000 people contact the walgreens commission. still in search of missing relatives. all up i called such as by any living relative he could give the as, as pay both to all the to this day there was still people buried in the battlefield. so it's a will who are registered as missing your walking council on ski works for the front of the walgreens commission and recovers corpses across germany as it gets leading they're suppose to be one over there. and then there's another site behind
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those, but the 2nd buddy don't like it always starts with a single don't 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 copy of 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 blog post. last thing i have a full days in play being close to 100000 lives. the face of many remains unknown
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to this day. a month, as i mentioned, i do this because there are people waiting for information about those missing. so it's like even includes my own family. if someone from your funeral i need go. so determining as many identities as possible, there's a help to take them a 1st time cleaning time. it's not, you know, to, to is, if you mentioned you walk in because long sky hopes to be able to identify yet another fallen soldier today. but somebody gives us a duty as we're getting to the crucial area where we usually find the id tagging smart if you was wearing one close to the still rec, so yeah, we can tour by sandwich or anything otherwise it's on the chain. it could also be lying by the scope and remember this is a part of our job working by the way. so here we have a voltage once up the board in september 9th,
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1917. and these go in the upper salisia. next step is to ask about the lutheran cemetery there in poland to put towards i can't find a date of birth for volunteer holds up to this stuff up when i talk needs that date of birth in order to determine who the defendant saw here born on september 20th 1929. the 16th 1929 would indeed mean he would only have been 16 at his time of death. the assessors known to visited schools to recruit boys as young as 14. as the wall progressed, they too was sent into battle. might have bound to hold sample to being one of those boys. each item raises new
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questions, questions about a time as cottage and chaos when 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 s s y would a 16 year old have such a photo on him, the territory to sort of the only explanation i have is my belief that war can 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 that 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. so you all came cost along. sky is still taking up the past around say little looking for
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clues to the identity of the dance individual listener. yet in the lunch street, we'll need to dig a bit deeper here later. yeah, call me here. as i hear you can see is new 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 you is also impossible. by looking at the metal identification tag. this will nothing so that kendall's market mental talk like that makes a proper signal. we don't 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 slip, this is bad. yeah. unless you can forget it. besides this,
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as long as it means that whatever was defined here as being thrown away to my knowledge or someone are general, maybe there was even an id tag which is presumably in private hands. now, if so well, because i mean that's appalling with 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 that 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 still on time, almost like a sheets to a no slice loose. the youngest, known victim in the cemetery was only a day old, not the oldest as 96 years younger persons on skin
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about 18000000 miles when last and the 2nd, while the, as in susan hines, narrow between $1.25 dead under each gravestone, and so we estimate the total number today and 152028000 debt and the cemetery today forms this housing for the parts of the dead and how the cemetery will remain on the forever. what's the cause or to explode? no more casualty is paying last respect to this person is a man with no name. there is no remembrance. says, what does 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
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a village from one of the photos by an owner in the fonts mountains. that's prompted a visit from paychex a month. he knows the old soldiers burial grounds in that area and might be able to match up the photographs, letters and the pay book. the home phone, the we found the service book of the young ss member viewing containing of photographs, your car within the very young child by the name of the hotel and the whole thing. 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 just the latest. and this could be the crucial thing we've found in denture in an envelope marked passenger, tyson us that site for that type of done comedies. when i came across your article on the internet,
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talk to where you talked about a denture, i was thinking, adventure is hardly unusual when done refunds, and then there were these items folded inside a sheet of paper. this, this list j is, might look familiar to you and these are original photos on places. ok, no photos. page 11 wrote a book covering the last days of the war around the town of indigo holder. at its center is kind of cool stuff. pay train considered to save you, of indigo, to having refused orders to defend the area against the advancing americans. his 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 st types, one a pasta in the hot mountains at the time trying to give the bear its soldiers
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a more dignified great sight. he was able to place 5 no names on a tip of crosses. one cross at the inscription on note, while the last 2 memorial crosses, without any human remains underneath them. one of those was the colonel page, say, 1956, the bodies would move to a symmetry in duncan bulk. in the process, a list was compiled, defined items found with the dad. 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 suitcases and not caring about where everything came from. it's kind of all side, perhaps type on, kept these things in the suitcase on purpose, posterior. everything connected to the men who fell and cry on an whole net and put on hold of him for being able to bring the homes. and we found this
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a couple that showed us the as the 2 men, examine the photos and compare the names and the cases contents with lists from the hans mountains across relics and emotional object to but i can pay to 11, makes an initial assessment 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, the 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. you're asking because a lot of skis, the 12 us in the german army. as a paramedic,
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he faced injuries and fatalities in the present day. now he's dealing with dance for many decades ago. chapel from time to time, i have some contact with relatives gone. they come to burial services, and often they'll bring a photo and say, call. this is how he wants. luke went to homes on which, on the muscles i've done my dollars now. it's really moving. it was the once a year to newly excavated a buried in one of the wall cemeteries that they all ground to that final resting place with dignity. most or i looked at the birth date, and some of them were 17 or 18 when they died or so i know that they didn't even know what they were doing there. and they
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were born and died as human beings born. not to mention the peer to if you to is 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 the difference 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 invalid the objects of clear this space, especially for your suitcase. so we can take a look. i phone, can you just use that? as you know, i already gave you a brief rundown of the story to dig out. so i'm going have these previously solved
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a range of mysteries together with occupation, the capable of all because he controlled forward and see that it got damped. and so it's a soldier's pay book or something you would be interested in is in process, doesn't, doesn't get to what happened, developed a hold site for the 16 year old as, as officer light. unfortunately, the photo is quite blurry. he, me freshman. yeah, my system is there's another one that holds up to the vital it's so it's up to. yeah. you had me, you'd show me some of his particulars. and there i have something to show you on hold something to call. yes. hold on a sec. this might even let's yeah, i mean we did find him a lot of things that we have no record of whether he's deceased bishop.
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unfortunately, we also have no record of whether he was killed in action by on fits or what happened to him after 43 years now to the on 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 ball not a 1929, but 1922. he made himself a younger possibly to save his own life. about today's meeting is also about examining all the objects from the suitcase i'm comfortable with and there was also an on below with identification tags. and the suitcase event may be they can all be assigned to hold. so that's going, that was my assumption. and this is the reception company to the yes, and this is a light tank on to hudson. yes. what you already sent me some scans. so we have
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them deciphered hot and actually found some information on them, on compensation for my to and that's what we're finding them one he's the man's name was corporal funds. solve a boosting, a stops, could fly items 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 in horner in the hearts mountains and st. tyson on your combs. the notice came from anne's tyson on the past. are you mentioned earlier, what you're saying to me, and my guess is that mr. ties months collected the items in this suitcase after overseeing the burial of the soldiers with a start to top, just a matter of 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, uninhabited cemetery to read buried in
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a close cemetery. france, sab, posting a, 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 arts, i thought to is among the, on the dead. and perhaps the letters and lots of times will find the recipient soft or a medium 18 years, often a well written that will now be the task of the federal, all kinds of stock and how the that is being further progress. a colleague of all of applied help recognized a seal in print that was on the bottom that the suitcase, the seal belong to ends from blue. so that is being handed over to his family.
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their son, tristan, he was in touch with mr. funded list of the sister for that and suddenly she opened up and wrote to him about her memories from 1945 from one. so it's easy to slipped are seated during thank you for your e mail about the discovery of the ceiling print, which was very moving for me english portion and i can barely remember my brother because he was 10 years older than you. but as a witness monk state, and as i told him, told us as often as you can call them and i can finish rest on the bottom. yet latasha the present couple of them put them on the on the 10th 1900. 2 on sunday she visited such as president is just for me tonight. and so i can definitely assist you with that. please keep either costing
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