WORLD : Grave Gives Up German Remains
East German soldiers today unearthed a mass grave said to contain the remains of Germans shot by Soviet troops after they were interned in a former Nazi concentration camp in 1945.
Digging in a pine forest north of Berlin, the soldiers uncovered more than a dozen skulls, one with a gold tooth still in place, and piles of bones in the sandy soil.
It was the third such discovery in recent weeks in East Germany. The country’s new democratic authorities are still investigating the horrors of Stalinism long hushed up by their Communist predecessors.
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