The Hell where Youth and Laughter go - mass German soldier exhumation

here we are in a local cemetery and there supposed to be a hundred and fifty two Germans that were buried here in 1945 and the German government decided that it's time to exhume them from these unmarked graves where they are now and bring them to a to a German military cemetery so we're gonna start digging digging them up here are the guys have just found the first body it has its identification tag so they're figuring out exactly what role it is tune or we should keep on digging this is the first body and that's the visor from his hat that we just found ring so the bodies are all lined up and buried very tightly so it's not going to be possible to dig all of them up carefully but we'll do some of them carefully here this two that are close together one of them has identification tag and on one of the previous videos people commented that these German bodies had better teeth and most Britt but we just found a set of teeth here that have a lot of cavities so that actually looks worse than British teeth here they just found the tibia the tibia is broken and they put a 20k round around it to stop the bleeding this is the fractured leg once it's taken of the ground it's actually a theme in order to be alike I thought and this is the tourniquet it was put around it so it's a long piece of rubber that the tighter on the leg this year is a identification tag that's filmed next to that leg that had a fracture with the tourniquet on it so it's not broken in half which might mean that the Germans didn't find it themselves either the guy was too bloody and they didn't want to go through his pants or something like that as I was saying previously there's so many bodies here that we can't dig all of them up carefully but I just took the time to dig these three up carefully and I look at each one one after the other this first body must have suffered pretty horribly before dying because if you look at the legs here both of them have been amputated just above the knee so presumably he was severely wounded in the legs and then the some surgeons cut them off and then he must have died and they buried him he was buried in a shelter quarter because you can see the the loops and the buttons from sheltered quarters that we found with the body I didn't see an identification tag on him yet the second body has a an identification tag that was near his arms it's for a pioneer unit and if you look at the body carefully you'll see that there's a fractured left femur come a bullet or a fragment who knows I didn't see any other wounds on him so far and then the third buddy I saw no wounds and no ID tag either here if you look at this pocket you can see that he had a perv perv scissors in his pocket so all these bodies were obviously buried in a rush all at the same time you can see that the arms are linked together and everything as we're removing the bones from this guy who had two amputated legs there's a small rank insignia here for a noncommissioned officer other tips of those two amputated legs on that poor soldier and you can clearly see the the saw marks from the surgeon saw on both sides this is the one with that but broken femur this is the fracture with all the other bone fragments in the fragments this little piece of iron I'm just digging up the third body that had those scissors in his pocket and where his hand as you can see there's a ring in the ground no we'll try to take a look at it so those are some family initials apparently MW used to call Lots just finishing today up one body here and on the arm there's one of these splints so the arm is broken here and these are the remains of a splint to prevent the fragments from moving so several of these bodies were treated in the hospital or something before a bit before dying this found with one body so it's a little thing to protect a matchbox when it's in your pocket it says fising mg battalion here souvenir of my army time and here there's a drawing of a machine gun here the guy just took up another fractured femur with attorney k on it so here we just found some more of the typical stuff a bunch of condoms how many do you have nose in his pocket how many did you have three three year wonder what he was doing with that there's a big hug found with this condom body what does it say on it it says first iyanya assets battalion nine his number is two eight one zero but group G so this is the end of day one we found 22 bodies so far and 17 ID tags this is the beginning of the second day so we're going to dig up the the second row of German soldiers that are buried here here they just dig up the skull and this guy has interesting work on his teeth there's a bridge here on the front teeth here along with a German buddy they just found an Italian canteen which is pretty interesting of course you can see it has two impacts one big one that went right through and then there's a smaller impact here it also came through as I said there's so many bodies that most of them are being dug up quite quickly but I managed to do these three carefully so we can see what they look like so the first body has nothing nothing particularly on it nothing particularly interesting on it there might be a dog tag once we take him out the second body is very interesting because as you can see he's lying on his stomach which is I don't know it's pretty unusual as far as I'm concerned for a body buried by the Germans he has this ring that for some reason was buried near his neck and then the third body has a you must have an arm fracture because on the right arm you can see that there's a splint here like we've found on several several of the other bodies taking this first body out of the ground and you can see on the top of the head there's an entrance a bullet hole so these kind of entrants are called keyhole bullet holes and it means the bullet came from this direction at an angle and then it made the this bone fragment fly off here and since there's no exit it means the bullet just sort of inside the head so we're gonna try to find it now so the face of this girl fell apart so we can look inside the skull and inside there's the bullet that would have caused the hole here so it's a small caliber pistol bullet probably something shot from from very close up that's why I didn't mix it so that's what killed this man now I've just been removing the bones of this the second body the one aware that air force ring and up here those his hand and where his hand was there's this wedding ring it has initials G SCH and then a date 15th of August 1939 so just before the war started we're done excavating the third body here that had the splint on the arm and if you look here so he has the splint like this going all on his forearm going up on the arm then the forearm here has smashed both both the bones and here there's a piece of rubber which is probably a surgical drain that the doctors put in there these are the forearm bones and the splint also taken over the ground so both the bones are fractured with multiple small pieces here they just found a body with an identification tag for app engine unit and the tibia was very interesting because there's an old fracture on it and you can see that it's been fixed with it's been fixed by a surgeon it has this wire in it at two places and you can see the bone is still bent it and didn't really heal properly this digging has been so difficult that we had to call in an excavator to help us there's supposed to be another row of Germans and of course we find that they're buried right under these trees here so apparently the trees are going to have to have to be taken down the end of the day and we're just getting to the end of the second row we were able to dig up six of these bodies quite carefully and unfortunately only one of them has a dog tag and there's not much interesting things to see on them except that this one here is on his back again I know I mean on the stomach so that's a bit surprising that the Germans buried this guy on his stomach it's already the third we find like that today another interesting thing is that this last body has a string around his neck so we'll see what's on maybe an identification take the string to have survived it means to be made of nylon I was saying that these bodies didn't have anything interesting but this one turns out to have a nice well nice isn't really the word but an entrance shrapnel hole here on the left side of his head and then a larger exit on the other side a pretty graphic illustration of what trouble can do I mentioned before that there was a stringer on this soldier's neck that you can see here I'm sure enough it does lead us to an identification tag that seems to be an extremely good condition an aluminum tag I will try to pull it out yeah yeah it's almost brand new this is day three like I explained yesterday we had to tear down all those trees because the there's a line of 40 Germans buried under the trees interestingly this Croatian the war monument was built pretty much right over the Germans which is quite typical we have a showing who won and who lost that's just a story be able to be well we all consume is Bo it's the ball she was in must be warm is a copper he debut album it's a school this is the old school that the Germans had used there's a field hospital and so are a lot of the soldiers that would know exhuming died this is tag they just found with one of the bodies for a pioneer unit and what's neat is you see that says blood group here and and the blood group was carved on by the soldier himself a so he figured it was an important information decided to add on even though the army had forgotten about it this body right here that they're just excavating he's buried on his stomach again which we thought was strange at first but there's so many of them know that it's not so strange and on his arm he has a tourniquet so presumably when we'll go down they'll be a fracture or something we'll see that later so here we've just excavated seven bodies a couple of them have ID tags so we'll go and look at them from close up the first interesting thing to see is that all of them have their legs that are going into this this Croatian war monument so they built the monument over the German graves which is quite typical the first body we didn't notice anything special no dog tag no no wounds the same for the second one the same for the third one the fourth one is more interesting because up here near his neck he had his ID tag that's still readable with no problems and if you look at them carefully you see that here in the pelvis there's a shrapnel hole right here so just that would be enough to cause well it could be a deadly wound depending on what what it hit inside the body of course this next one the fifth one has nothing particular the sixth one had a dog tag which is interesting because it's an Air Force dog tag it says it's a it's supposed to be for a pilot actually but presumably at the end of the war when there were normal no more our planes or anything like that they sent them to the infantry after a bit and he got killed here and then the last body the seventh is a buried on his back I saw it on his stomach so that's the third or fourth we find on its stomach the first one surprised me but now they're becoming pretty common and then down here near his arm where the next body is that we haven't dug up yet there was this this piece of rubber which is a remains of a tourniquet I just forgot to mention something here and you're the seventh body is that there's a leg as you can see the tibia here and the foot here the femur part is missing but I presume that that's an amputated leg that they just buried along here with the bodies and then the femur got lost somehow during the digging process so this would have been an amputated leg they just threw into the grave to get rid of it this is the pelvic bone of that soldier who had a shrapnel wound and the in the pelvis and this is very typical you can see where the fragment went in the hole is rather small and then it came out the other side and the hole is much larger these skulls are very fragile and it's really neat to see how the roots found a great place inside them and they seem to love it from there we're trying to take these skulls out of the ground but it's impossible to do it without breaking them because these roots that are in the skull or attached to the ground underneath so as soon as you try to pull it it just tears everything apart looks almost like a brain inside there you guys have just dug out a tibia here that's interesting because the guy had some fracture and you can see both the fit both the tibia and fibula are fused with in a not very nice-looking way it looks like the doctors have took care of this guy didn't reduce the fracture properly so here we have two bodies that are very interesting because on the list of burials their causes of death were listed this is body number 34 and 35 and the first one has a cause of death it says both legs torn off and the second one's cause of death is mind fragments in both legs or shell fragments in both legs and the left foot torn off so the first body here he has his ID tag and yours neck where it should be that it's still readable though it's probably not readable for you guys who are watching unfortunately of course these really interesting bodies were partly damaged by the excavator it dug too deep at this exact place and well anyway that kind of thing happens now if you look at the legs you see that there's these splints all around the legs these metallic splints all around one of the legs goes all the way to the bottom where the foot is the femur here is intact and then the tibia if you go down you see it's fractured here and then there's a little piece of red rubber inside the fracture which is a surgical drain that a doctor would have pruned there so that pus and stuff like that could could drain out of the wound and then the the splint goes around the foot and here you have some of the some of the bones from the feet now we'll take a look at the second body it's the one that was mostly damaged by the excavator but you can still see the arm and the head everything is still there he has a dog tag around his neck which is an excellent condition he has something here under his arm that we'll see later some kind of or something as we go down we see that this is damaged by the excavator it would have been intact at the time here there's a shell fragment and the leg here there's a spoon and fork set up that has a bit of shrapnel damage where my thumb is and then as we go down to the tibias the shins we see these really horrible wounds both tibias start here and then they're completely mangled smashed into tiny pieces and then there's one foot that's here and you can see it's at a completely awkward angle so this guy's legs would have been pretty much we used to do applesauce as far as it looks like they didn't even take his shoe off so this is the second body that we're looking at right now with us both his legs that were completely blown apart now we've taken them out and you can see it's pretty impressive both tibias are just smashed to smithereens there's hardly any bones from the foot left on this lake on the right leg the left leg is also completely smashed the the tibia is still in the shoe as we saw before anyway really horrible ones of this guy died off now that we've removed the that first body with both legs that were broken we can see the legs of the second one so one leg is intact and then the other one has that fracture that we saw earlier on now that we're taking the bones of this body out you can see that this is his right arm and the humerus is cut in half here and the rest of the arm is missing so apparently this guy had an arm that was blown off completely these are the fragments of the the arm bone and you can see that they'll fit back together perfectly and the rest of the arm is the rest of the arm is missing now this is the broken tibia that had that small drain in it put all the pieces back together and there's an impact area here at the back I didn't find any fragment of shrapnel or anything though in the meantime we'll as exhuming some of the buddies the other guys found a body with an amputated shin this is the top part this would be the bottom part and as you can see it's cut off both the tibia and the fibula and then there's these little pieces of rubber that were surgical drains that were left in the wound hero new look at the the cut part from close-up you can clearly see the saw marks and you can even see that on the top the surgeon kind of rounded the bone out so it wouldn't be too sharp against the flesh as I was saying earlier on they built their war monument right over the the German graves so now we're having to tunnel underneath the monument to at least try to get some of the moat here they're just trying to dig out the last German under the monument and for obvious reasons it wasn't possible to dig them up very carefully but this is a part of the skull and you can see there's a part of a shell fragment which is part of a driving band of the shell which is really interesting because you can know what caliber what country the shells from and everything and it left a green mark on the skull they also found something else neat with this body it's this wire that was going all around it so it looks like this guy was probably buried in a blanket or a sheet or something then they wrap this wire around him to keep him nicely wound up height this is horrible it'll pass if y'all may know I let you take the roof I know so these have been tunneling under the monument now for several hours and they're still supposed to be one body but as you can see he's about three meters in so it's becoming seriously difficult to work in there he gets a for effort though we're still missing about 40 or 50 of the bodies they're supposed to be two more rows so we're looking for them now but with all these new graves and everything it's hard to find really hard we turned lucky here because this place where you've been digging is actually a row of gems that we're looking for so we're starting to dig them out now here you can see there's one head the second head the third head I'm going to try to dig business out carefully and near this who had had this odeon dug tag so we're gonna look at it and figure out who's supposed to be buried here one of these bodies were just finding a mirror they found the ID tag a few minutes ago which is for some Air Force guy and then under the mirror there's a wound badge silver wound badge so that means this guy was wounded one twice her had been wounded severely before in the war before being killed and on this side I've kept on digging as well and this guy on his arm here's this white thing that of course everybody guests as a condom and then down here there's a belt buckle made of iron so they keep on digging this mirror they found a still in perfect condition you can see we can see the camera on it and what about the whistle does it still work last time that we was a long time ago here beside where the wind badge was no there's an infantry assault badge it's pretty rare to find badges still on the bodies because they would usually take them off it's still in reasonably good condition the guys digging this hole here have just found a watch on the soldier oh this is interesting because I showed you there was a watch buried with one soldier earlier on and now what did they find digging up the same soldier here there's a second watch so it seems like he might have been taking things from prisoners or something like that at the time two watches on one soldier this is the stuff found with that watch the other soldier and in this pocket there's a bunch of albanian coins 1 lik 1930 so I'm ready here to dig out the the first body that I've excavated this morning it's literally under a modern-day grave under the side of it so it's shown it before he has an ID tag down around his neck there seems to be a head wound that we can't see properly yet we'll see it better later I'll take this coat carefully did you see this flat rate on the scope on the arm here there's a condom then there's a belt buckle on the other side there's a cigarette case a pocket knife and then a spoon and fork and nothing else on the body nothing particular misguided dog tag around his neck but now digging the stuff out from his pelvis area there's a second dog tag and when we look at the numbers and the list of burials it turns out that this dog tag from his neck actually probably belonged to the soldier right next to him and since they're on those long strings had ended up here for some reason and this is the stuff that was bred with the body so the cigarette-case a knife belt buckle and the spoon and fork set digging out this second body that had the the tag on the other soldier's neck if you remember and to show you how complicated and messy this can get now when we're digging where his ribs are well what do you find in another dog tag so there's three dog tags and only two soldiers so how are gonna makes any sense out of that so to figure this thing out we looked at the list and they're supposed to be body 125 126 no 126 127 128 129 and the dog tag was body 127 for some reason was on the neck the body 129 so whatever will trust the the way the Germans buried them but you can wonder why that dog tag got got around somebody else's neck pretty strange so now I'm carefully excavating this soldier who had the to ID tags and they came to the area of where the right hand would have been and you can see there's a what looks like a wedding ring on that hand so I'll take a look at it see if there's anything written inside it so this is the ring but it's made of silver and I can't see anything written on it it would have to be cleaned to see if it has a data or something like that so digging up some of these more bodies and this one is interesting he has a pair of glasses actually still on his face I've never seen that before when you look at the teeth have a lot of these soldiers you wonder how they were surviving every day because they're these absolutely horrible cavities almost all of them have cavities like that this is one buddy that I just succeeded carefully all he's had with him as a bunch of buttons and loops from the shelter quarters which shows that he was buried in one of those shelter quarters so that's the German tent they had cedar loops from it the only interesting thing on him is this identification tag that was between his legs in this pelvic area other than that there's no fractures nothing interesting at all and then the we're gonna finish these other soldiers here this one should have a dog tag somewhere because there's a string around his neck and this one has a dog tag under his spine we're gonna dig up soon so this is the dog tag that they're saying is under his spine so we're just gonna give it right now I hasn't seen the light of day for 75 years so we're gonna dig out this last body you know he also had no clothes no buttons the only stuff on him were these shot recorder parts and then there's a string around his neck we're gonna see if there's a dog tag now as we dig the moat so now I was expected I just removed this soldiers head and under the head here's the ID tag and this is kind of ironical because the guy had a string of nylon that's in perfectly brand-new condition after 70 or 80 years but of course his ID tag is iron so it's completely destroyed it'll be impossible to read it it's like the ironical anyway that was the last body for this this year's dig these are all the ID tags from from this dig so there's literally dozens and dozens of them since most of the soldiers had them she was buried here in 1934 she saw the Germans burying their dad and now she's looking at us excavating them again with that look in her eyes makes you realize the insignificance of human life you

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Keywords: battlefield archaeology, wehrmacht, eastern front, digging, excavation, exhumation, 1945, war cemetery, world war II, killed in action, missing in action, amputation, tourniquet, war surgery, metal detecting, identification tags, dog tags, horros of war, cadavres soldats allemands, disparus, fosse commune, detecteur de métaux, détection, chirurgie de guerre

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Length: 33min 31sec (2011 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 27 2019

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The condoms were rain harvesters in emergency. But yeah, French ladies when things were less intense.

[u/Napalmdeathfromabove]

Didn't the allied soldier have three rubbers in their packs when they reinvaded France for d day? I'm sure I saw a reference to it recently on indi arndells wwii channel.