(6 May 2025)
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Ostrołęka, Poland – 19 March 2025
1. Skeleton in ground with archaeologist measurement ruler
2. Skeletons in ground with an archaeologist measurement ruler
3. SOUNDBITE (German) Artur Berger, embedding manager of the Volksbund:
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“In principle, it is the responsibility of society as a whole to take care of the country’s fallen soldiers, regardless of how long they have been dead, fallen or for what reasons they went into battle.”
4. Top shot of excavation in graveyard
5. Workers take out bones from the ground
6. Bones in a casket
7. SOUNDBITE (German) Artur Berger, embedding manager the Volksbund:
“Even here in Poland, for example, Polish employees bed down the German soldiers, which also creates a certain cohesion, we create understanding for each other.”
8. Dirt gets brushed off a skull
9. SOUNDBITE (German) Artur Berger, embedding manager of the Volksbund:
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"When you excavate a person and you uncover the face, every dead person still has that horror of war on their face."
10. Worker brushes dirt off a skeleton
11. Worker brushes dirt off a skeleton
12. Workers in grave while excavating the dead bodies
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Kassel, Germany – 28 April, 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (German) Dirk Backen, managing director of the Volksbund:
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“Behind every dead person is a human destiny and that is also our focus. So taking the individual out of an anonymous number, a large mass, and giving him back his identity and thus also a piece of human dignity, that cannot be denied him.”
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Ostrołęka, Poland – 19 March, 2025
14. Skull and bones in a casket
15. Workers at graveyard
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Kassel, Germany – 28 April, 2025
16. SOUNDBITE (German) Dirk Backen, managing director of the Volksbund:
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"We have a whole team made up of reburiers who search for the war dead and then recover them. We then have our own identification department, which also deals with determining the exact identity of the dead. And then we have a separate element that takes care of finding relatives. We can assume that around two million war dead are still missing. We won’t find them all. "
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Ostrołęka, Poland – 19 March, 2025
17. Embedding manager Artur Berger at work
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Kassel, Germany – 28 April, 2025
18. Employee in her office looking through files
19. Passport and book of a German soldier with the Nazi symbol on it
20. Several personal items found in graves
21. Bottle with personal information about a fallen soldier and helmet with gun hole in the foreground
22. Paper in a bottle with information about a fallen soldier
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Halbe, Germany – 30 April, 2025
23. Bell tolls
24. Wide shot funeral of 107 fallen soldiers
25. SOUNDBITE (German) Martina Seiger, relative of fallen WWII soldier:
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“It’s actually terrible that 80 years after a war we are still finding and burying hundreds of dead people here, some of whose families don’t even know where they are, and that it’s even more important today to do something like this, because with war and everything that’s going on in Europe today, and also these nationalistic tendencies in society, in all countries almost that always leads to many young people lying here. 15-year-olds, 16-year-olds, 21-year-olds who had their lives ahead of them.”
26. Soldiers of the German military putting the coffins to rest
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