WWII-era grave found in Germany (Jewish, Article)

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WWII-era grave found in Germany


Workers at a US Army airfield near Stuttgart, Germany have uncovered a World War II-era grave believed to contain the bodies of Jewish slave laborers used by the Nazis, German authorities said Wednesday.

The skeletal remains of an undetermined number of people were found Monday during work on the airfield next to Stuttgart s airport, said Ulrich Heffner, a spokesman for police in the southwestern city.

Preliminary examination of the remains indicated that they were of the right age to be the bodies of Jews used as forced laborers in the area, Heffner said in a statement. According to Heffner, Jewish inmates from a camp adjacent to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp were used as slave laborers at the airbase between November 1944 and February 1945, and more than 100 died of hunger and typhus during that period; nineteen were cremated at the time, and another 66 corpses were found in October 1945, shortly after the war ended.


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