SOURCE: Der Spiegel
7-31-13
tags: World War II, Russia, Germany, Der Spiegel, Eastern Front, Wehrmacht
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7-31-13
Germany still burying Eastern Front dead from WWII
Breaking Newstags: World War II, Russia, Germany, Der Spiegel, Eastern Front, Wehrmacht
Germany will open its last big war cemetery in Russia on Saturday, marking the culmination of a huge effort to recover Wehrmacht soldiers killed on its Eastern Front in World War II.
By the end of this year, the German war graves commission will have found and reburied a total of 800,000 soldiers in Eastern Europe and Russia since 1992, when the former Eastern bloc countries began helping Germany retrieve the remains of missing soldiers following the end of the Cold War.
On Saturday, German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière will hold a speech at the inauguration of the new war cemetery at the town of Dukhovschina, near the city of Smolensk in western Russia.....
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