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Seeing a soldier frozen in time like this is truly insane. The stories these items tell, so interesting.
Bro I swear I see you everywhere
@@chaseboswell1062 I think were all just getting the same recommended lol
Seeing a rebel alliance pilot of the millennium falcon frozen in carbonite is very sad too.
@@chaseboswell1062 wtf do you mean boy?
no longer frozen in time since he fucked up the remains
This guy is very Lucky to be found. Most of the soldiers in the easternfront were never found . Keep on the work you're doing a great Job. Many families will be grateful to you .
Well most of them were never found they’re below the ground and have yet to be found and many in the coming years will be unearthed the cycle continues. It’s sad how he died in that spot it’s creepy too but rip all the soldiers
They are buried for a reason, i doubt anyone would claim them.
@@s5kw which is?
@@s5kw This is not a formal burial. Many of the bodies found were buried by explosions - sadly many were buried alive by massive land upheavals created by exploding shells.
Yes same
Imagine he was once held as a baby by proud parents, watching him as he grows up then he ends up like this truly haunting yet a significant story to be told
@@user-yf2iv1rt7l everyone had a story he's just will never be told
It's sad to think about as a parent
@@jonathanng138 if they have his id, then his history would be in records they kept thinking they would win, you know.
Им не стояло его рожать, а ему не стояло сюда приходить.
Так, что - всё по заслугам!!!
Судьба - её величество!!!
He was fighting on the wrong side, but that pile of bones was once a human. He had dreams, he had family, he had emotions. What were the final moments of his life like as he lay in his final resting place. So many questions
Hello from France, this guy have two type of shoes because he drive a motorcycle. It was more easy to change the gear rapidly...
We find the same equipement on many guys in Normandy in a motorcycle scout bataillon.
Good job all. Have fun.
A Polish friend of mine told me once that he was hiking out in the countryside and through some woods when he decided to take a break and and sat down perched up against a tree by some undergrowth. He looked to his side and he saw a weird shape covered in branches and weeds and stuff, he investigated further and began breaking up all of the weeds and it turns out it was a German soldier. Still had his weapon, helmet, everything but most of his clothing had rotted away except for some strips here and there and his boots. Apparently its not uncommon in Poland to find even whole tanks and artillery pieces and stuff like that in the woods, just left there from WWII.
just hope they don't come across landmines.
Wow that's amazing
Sorry if this is a rude question but do you know if your friend reported it so he could be sent back to any left over family
@@wesleymcbride8084 I don't actually, I didn't ask about it at the time it never occurred to me. He seemed like a decent guy so he probably did.
Hope they don't run into mines that are still live.
Imagine your death is unknown, and 80 years later someone find your body still wearing the exact uniform that you wear before you died. So sad to think that he is someone's son/brother/father/friend
thats reality, this happened to many people in the war. its hard to know
I'd be a lot more disturbed if he was found wearing something else.
@@orlaoto5794 like what 🤨 im jenuely confused
@@callumdolten7486 Of course he's wearing the exact same uniform 80 years later. If he wasn't, someone has been playing dress-up with his corpse... which would be disturbing.
@@orlaoto5794 huh oh i can imagine the really be disturbed
I am happy there are people out in the world looking for lost soldiers. I don’t care what military anyone served in once they are dead we treat them with respect. Their service is over and they need to go home. My hat is off to anyone able to do this. Looking forward to your videos.
If I was a German soldier I would have much rather died on Omaha beach (so they would Bury me in a nice cemetery) or during the battle of Berlin rather than lying in some forsaken field in Russia
as you called him, a German soldier... these are the N-a-zi-s who occupied Europe and wanted to take over the USSR, but now their descendants are making films about them and whitewashing them... the N-az-is burned Jews in ovens and made holsters for llamas from their skin... ... you are their descendants, creatures.....
@@karimtemri1664do you know that German soldiers, like this one, killed 27 millions of Russians? We haven’t even found our soldiers yet, regret about that, not some ss guy who came to kill. My grandfather lost his all 6 brothers in that war. He was the only one who survived. And we still don’t even know where those 6 men died and were buried.
@user-nd9bs8gsu it's still send shivers whenever i hear that 27 million people of a nation died in like under 5 years in war must have been hell for all the family members
@@user-nd9bs8gs3u You want to go around blaming people? It was your people attacking Finland that made sure I never met my grandfather. Like you put it "came to kill".
All those many millions that died, on all sides, is just so incredibly sad. Thank you for treating them with such respect.
Human Madness...The most painful part of all this is that these dead men had people waiting for them to come back home. A mother, a sister, a daughter, a son, a father. They just vanish, never to be seen again. So sad!!! Thank you to these people who take the time to give back humanity to these soldiers. It doesn't matter on which side they were fighting.
So sad. But imaging these soldier had fighting till the for what we never understand ..
Exactly. It makes me sad to watch war movie comments sometimes. I have 2 kids and i teach them that there should never ever be war again (we are german).
on one hand side they had people waiting for them at back at home .. on the other side, they themselves were there to kill other
@@romino29
This’s why I called this. Human’s madness. We have so many ways we can solve our differences instead of killing each other. My heart goes for their humanity, not for the reason they were fighting.
They had people waiting unless they died in Allied bombing
It's weird to imagine their last moments: the shouting, the blood, the shooting, the smells, the blasts. These weren't CoD gameplays.
teljes mértékben igaz.
,,,and the pain.....
@@mcashnv yes
I don't think the soldiers with huge holes in the helmet were screaming when they died
Peace from Tunisia
It's just downright eerie seeing skeletal remains with boots still on. What really got to me was in another video a small mirror was found and it was chilling knowing the last person to look into it was the dead soldier that tried keeping himself tidied up in the field.
nothing eerie about it.. you are that bag of bones your looking at.. no difference.. bible makes it very clear so you dont have to wonder in awe. that from the dust we came and dust we go back to..
maybe the mirror was for shaving
You show so much respect to the remains of these servicemen, thank you for your valuable work.
Frozen in time.. A really interesting and also sad thing to see. Yes, they were SS, but still, it's nice to see they are found and are no longer missing.
Really? Find all the millions they summarily dispatched in ditches and forests first. Stuff them.
@@realPromotememedia they were elite soldiers believing the cause, what is the difference between them and US SEALS in Iraq or so,..to be SS man doesnt mean you had to be a crazy monster,..obeying soldiers for sure..
@@steflon there is a huge difference. The SS were monsters serving no other purpose than doing their masters bidding. The SEALS have honor and integrity ( most have higher education ) they do not follow orders which they know are immorally wrong and they opening speak their mind to their unit commanders when discussing operations where mistakes were made. If you knew anything about the SEALS, or any spec ops branch of the US military and their operation tactics, you would realize how ridiculous your comparison is. Marcus Luttrell’s team of SEALs died because they didn’t kill the Afghan shepherds who discovered them while they were performing their duties. They let them go, as a result those “shepherds ” informed the Taliban where his team was, which resulted in his entire team dying. That’s just one publicly known incident that puts your comparison to shame.
@@marcusbeck4656 cpt america, obviously you know about SS as much as i about seals.. Being SS didnt mean you went killing spree on civilians..except some units as sonderkomando or einsatzgruppen..
@@steflon most of the world knows about the SS. The waffen SS may not have committed the scale of murders that SS concentration camp guards did, or the specialized SS units that followed the regular army, but they too possessed fanatical Nazi ideology which was a “requirement”, even when Himmler’s “Germanic standards” fell to the wayside due to a need to supplement their ranks after Stalingrad, a significant loss to the Nazis, furthermore they committed more than their share of government sanctioned murders in the east and west. Stop denying and excuse making.
The fact that he's still laying the way he died is insane!
I know right! RIP for all those poor young boys
اثنيلبرلةزتا هابة
scary to because the second ones jaw was wide open like he was calling for help or somthing.
He was buried
@@mhmd78azez95 English is the lingua franca of the internet, Hoss.
interesting that the clock stopped at 08:05 - the date the war stopped was 08.05. as well.
أنت دقيق في الملاحظة.احسنت
And I am watching this on the 8th of may, 2024
@@user-bq7jl1fo1qand that comment for me was 8 days ago
@@PlaneNerd000 and for me ZattheRed comment is 8 months ago. And pictures + user +planenerd comments are 3weeks+3weeks+2weeks=8weeks ago. What are the ghosts try to tell us ? Something will happen on the 08.06 maybe ?
Finding the dog tag and notifying families is the neatest thing!!
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Thank you for doing this. Two young men of my family also served in the 2.WW for Germany and died in Russia and are still missing. They were two brothers and only 22 and 21 years old just as I am today. Greeting from Germany keep on your great work.
@@dashriprock5720 most of the soldiers have been either brainwashed or forced into battle because the consequences for denying war service would have been unimaginable for them and their families. it wasn't their choice, it was the fault of the few insane killing machines in the government on top of the army & ss regiments who dont have anything to do with the normal german army but were monsters indeed. but to think that all the germans were cruel and dont deserve to be honored isnt that far away from the fascist and blind way of thinking back then, just to tell you. allied soldiers, soviet soldiers, german soldiers partisans, all of them did their war crimes, all of them fought only because the people above told them. but its always the germans they blame, if a soviet raped a german woman or if an american slaughtered innocent people from vietnam or middle east, they call them "heroes". come on man
@@latschomulo5710 this
@@dashriprock5720 your comment is not the brightest one, a statistic after the war showed 90% of the soldiers did not commit atrocities nor have knowledge of such. It’s such an inaccurate thing to say “oh some made atrocities don’t bury that soldier leave him dead” he fought for Germany as a country not for Germans politically motivated opinions. He died and deserves respect you don’t know what he did he probably was just another young man that lived and died the same way as hundreds of thousands millions of men and women did. It is extremely inaccurate to depict Germany’s entire population as barbaric murders. If you didn’t get that message the first time, become a corpse of war who lived and died with morals for a deception tactic and then see how it feels
@@dashriprock5720 respect for the German soldiers 🇩🇪
@@Themadmarketer
Not from me
A superb channel by an amazingly knowledgeable group of people. Such care and humility in the way these guys excavate the dead.
denzil040709.super duper channel.and horror DHANCHAA my Pra
Thank you for the work you do. It is very honorable to give them a final resting place back home.
Rest in Peace to all of the soldiers who have fallen in the war.
expect the war criminals and nazi high command.
@@rainerm490 tbh all ally soldiers commited war crimes
@@sinkless7614 true but the natzis murdered all the juish and for no reason to
@@ramosdiana1981 but still respect the dead
@@ramosdiana1981 and so did the soviets
“He died with his boots on”. 👍👍👍 (and his helmet.) The watch probably ran for hours after he died.
Jesus Christ that watch thing just messed me up. Never thought about it like that, damn.
@@matthewschablik2949
The watch stopped at 8:06
from what i could tell.
May be years
@@addictionfreeworld2919 no, watches back then would run for a maximum of a day or two.
Seeing them frozen in time, and seeing exactly how they died like a photo into the past. You guys do very very impressive work on your digging not to disturb the body or objects!
I used to use my metal detector while I was in Germany back in 1989-1991 with the US Army. I found live ammo numerous times and eventually got banned from the military because they said I was taxing their services. Every time I found a grenade or mortar round they had to secure the area until the demo team could remove it. I went to the black forest and searched around the fox holes that were there. You can still see the depressions and the outlines. Didn't find any bodies but did find some gear.
5:40 really cool detail is that the handles of the ammo boxes are off to the side instead of in the center so you can carry two boxes in one hand easily. True German engineering
@Capt Abhimanyu Bhat isntreal
Turly
@Trey Stephens probably was on retreat and the allies rushed quickly so they had to leave it
They look like they can still be used
@Capt Abhimanyu Bhat 👣👣👣🇮🇱🇮🇱
War is such a waste. All the lives lost and heartbroken families
Working people die for the aims and goals of their oppressors.
Some nations survive it. I always wonder why the Brits sacrificed a whole generation during ww1. I can't see what their big stake was.
War is a waste 100% agree Rufus.
@@andygossard4293 don't ask the british nation or it's citizens. Ask the rothschild banking cartel.
@@secondsun7727 Yep money root of all evil. Ask any American career politician
I was amazed how much of the guy you found, I can just picture his face and figure and voice with all of this. Good job you guys!
This is truly amazing. In his last days when he was still alive, was just a young man living a traumatic lifestyle, in a warzone. All of them fellow comrades, weapons, and ammunition surrounding him couldn't save his life. The helmet really held up well. They were well outfitted soldiers for those times. Another part of me wonders how my own skeletal remains will look, after seeing this. Very fascinating, the details of someone's life you can gather just by digging them up. I don't condone it, but that's really no proper burial for someone. RIP unnamed fallen soldier.
He was SS, monsters don’t deserve happy endings
@@Chuked Classical psychopath answer 'they deserved it' says more about you than about the guy that passed away
@@ytrez6252 Uh, no, sorry, but my grandfather witnessed first hand what atrocities WW2 german soldiers could commit against defenceless civilians. And as members of the Viking division these guys were foreign volunteers, not germans. They shouldnt have been fighting for the germans.
These guys definitely deserved what happened to them. Unfortunate but true.
@@Chuked Well I will pray for him so he does get one and help him reach heaven.
@@tileux Blame the Soviets/Comintern, even before Hitler was voted in power, the Soviets were mucking about throughout Europe like France, Italy, Hungary, Scandinavia with their international/global revolution, don't act all surprised that sensible Europeans wanted to put a stop to their reach. In Germany three communist revolutionary efforts undertaken with the help of local communists and sympathizers-in early 1919, in 1921, and again in 1923, thankfully all failed.
When my grandfather was about to end his life at the age of 95, he said to me: "yes, yes, you had to hold out your bones for the great men!" my grandpa experienced the war in verdun as a young soldier. He ran across a field of funnels with 6 other soldiers, heard a grenade coming and threw himself down. the other 6 were dead, he was bleeding to death. a paramedic called: we can leave Franz behind! a young lieutenant whistled him back and snapped at him: and you will take Franz with you !!
my grandpa was then in the hospital for a long time. In the regiment he was the best shooter he was proud of. but then they wanted to make him a sniper, against which he defended himself with hands and feet and then was freed from it. during the war he received the iron cross. at a very young age he got to know death and misery while high generals enjoyed themselves in victories. yes, it was the little soldiers who had to suffer so terribly and today it is no different.
Any Proof?
@@rrshowtime3900 Any proof for anything else ? :D
Möge er nun seinen Frieden haben. Mein Urgroßvater war auch dort, kam unversehrt wieder nach Hause- und ging im nächsten Krieg wieder hin. Kam wieder lebendig zurück. Manche haben Glück, andere nicht.
Trench warfare was horrible.... nothing was spared and nobody was saved. Your grandpa understood Good and Evil.
In Erich Maria Remarck's masterpiece "All Quiet on the Western Front" some of the front guys discussed having the Generals and prime minsters gather to fight each other with clubs.
Sounds like a fine idea to me.
@@jamallabarge2665 would the nations accept the result though? If Ji Xingpin beat Trump to death with a club, would America accept that China now controlled it? Because Trump would take that challenge if offered. No one knows more about club fighting than President Trump. In fact, experts in hand to hand combat in the military were surprised how much he knew about the subject.
The "medallion" actually was a German identity disk! They came, and still come, in two parts: one to stay with the body, the other to be collected for registration.
It's called a "dog tag."
That's what i call foresight.A dog tag is the most basic asset a soldier must have.After the Falklands war, most of the Argentine soldiers had to be buried as unknown because they lacked the dog tags.The bodies were identified because of DNA samples taken from their relatives.
@@erikb703 In the heat of battle, time is a fickle thing. It is likely that whatever happened, no one really bothered to check on the individual, I reckon survival was key. I reckon the individual was forgotten perhaps by a compatriot who was also killed and thus could not relay that other individuals position, who knows.
My dad was a POW in Germany he was issued with a dog tag like that by the germans , if he was killed they kept one half the other sent to the UK
Only problem it was SS, these guys were considered the evil soldiers and normally put on trial at end of ww2, while the common soldier was just let go.
Спасибо за вашу доброту. Пожалуйста, отправьте остальных обратно в Германию, чтобы немецкое правительство могло найти его семью.
nope
suck it fritz
@@user-kv6tq9rq3rа потом говорят что немцы нацисты
@@user-tp3ul8ee7pНемцы тогда были нацистами
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@@ref47ты хуже фашиста.
Esse canal é fantástico. Descobri agora esse canal e já estou maratonando nos vídeos. Saudações do Brasil.
What strikes me the most is the soldier with a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other. This really speaks about how desperate the supply situation was in the Ostfront, the soldiers wore anything, whether they found it or was looted, to keep themselves warm. The SS couldn't even supply their own troops, it was every man for themselves.
Could have had a sprained ankle or something. Not a bad enough wound to leave the frontline.
Conditions especially in the later stages of the war were poor.
And even in the beginning the blitzkrieg against Poland, huge parts of the German army weren't even mechanised yet, donkeys and horses still in use (the propaganda didn't show this of course)
Most likely it envolved an injured foot, could also be for driving purposes (various mechanised vehicles, including tanks, which were awkward to drive for a long time if you were tall) or simply a superstition for good luck. I doubt the SS had no shoes at that stage of the war. The soldier was probably Dutch or from the Flander region
4:46 both feet are in boots here
@@genesclean1 Only one foot.
I appreciate the respect you gave to these soldiers. Thanks for sharing
Imagine being the enemy or the kin of the enemy and returning the soldier to the family's burial lands, and offering prayer and forgiveness.Thats a special privilege.
I mean were these the camp guys or the paramilitary guys?
I don’t know if you watched how that boot was taken out and the inconvenient bones discarded, ....there is no prayer and forgiveness here, they want the bayonets and souvenirs end of.
@@theweaves7432 probaply military because he was shot in the head.
Lost an Uncle in 1965. Crashed near the Chinese border. His remains came back in 1992. A small box of bones. The survivors had his remains burned and buried in Hawaii.
I was a toddler when he left. He was just a legend to me. Everyone who knew him alive was gone.
"The gratitude of a grateful nation".
The guy never had a license to drive a car. He lived in the city. He got a pilot's license at 16.
Sorry to you. Sorry to the family. God of course has his system of justice to haves and have nots. Remember Lazarus had nothing and Dives had all comfort in the world.. Abraham told him you enjoyed everything and Lazarus nothing, but now he is comforted. Also in the beatitudes. If I and and us all can get over this sense of all the problems in the world and politics and the elections, live for today and strive for eternity. that is the way to be, and to have peace.
هذا هو اخر مصير للانسان في هذه الدنيا. لماذاالحروب ولماذا يقتل الانسان اخوه الانسان. لماذ لم نعمر الارض ونزرعها ونجد فرص عمل لكل الناس ونترك العداوات بيننا الارض كلها لله وحده ونحن نعيش عليها فقط وغدا نتركها
Rip to this unknown soldier and to all the soldiers of ww2😢
RIP to the enemy?
@@chrisb3976 Nobody wants to go to war.
Not all of them deserve to rest in peace, if you think that, you need to brush up on history.
@@mace8873 Nope, may all soldiers rest in peace
@@mace8873 the German soldiers didn’t want to probably. I mean yeah there were probably some who did. Like this one time there was this German soldier who bombed my town in ww2 and he came back around 20 years ago to see the town. He said he hated the idea but he had to other wise he would’ve been killed. Don’t think everyone is bad because they were a nazi.
It’s amazing to stare history In the face like this, you can almost picture him alive sitting there, absolutely amazing.
I agree
Yankees always ruling over you! Lincoln project.
@@letsgobryden5063 lol
Stupid confederate lol
@@tyrone5209 Cry?
So Brilliant! The skill and patience you have is a credit to you!
Soldiers final moments must be terrifying
this is really sad, most of them were just teens and to die that young is just so tragic. RIP
But they were there to kill civilians as a nazi project. They deserved what happened.
@@alvinegro2318 im sure not all of them have that mindset and doesn't really want to fight in the war but doesn't have any choice.
@@alvinegro2318 Many times in the war SS units integrated with the Heer on both fronts to fight, not commit crimes against civilians. Although they did at times, like many nations at the time, it was mostly the Einsatzgruppen that committed the atrocities behind the lines in occupied territories.
@@majestikmse8862 Much of what you wrote is both incorrect and amusing, but your softhearted apologia for the SS isn't.
@ If you say so
Much RESPECT for your handling of the remains of these SOLDIERS....GODSPEED...
FUCK BARBARIANS. NO RESPECT. WITH HATRED FROM GREECE.
@@vasileiosvoulgaroktonos900 of course its a greek who says this smh
Peace from Tunisia
@@vasileiosvoulgaroktonos900 come back when you're a man and now some boy with raisin nuts
In the description for the video it says "relic hunting". I haven't watched the channel much, but are we sure the intentions of the excavators is to show respect for the remains and to reunite them with their families?
*“I do not fear death as I have been dead for billions of years before birth and it didn’t cause me the slightest inconvenience “*
When I travelled around Russia several years ago I joined a group who were searching the fields near Stalingrad (today known as Volgograd). We didn't find any bodies but we did find many items. It was quite an experience. Very somber.
Я из Волгограда ( Сталинграда) и мои прадедушки погибли на войне их так и не нашли.
Came here to see a full fallen soldier skeleton intact..........This did not disappoint. Fantastic job on the excavation.
Those were somebody's sons, fathers, husbands or brothers. War is terrible.
I play war games but it’s just depressing to see the actual fights
Это результат слепого доверия политикам и любой власти.... и неважно какого государства. Каждый человек должен противится системе, будь то буржуазной или коммунистической. Они попросту поверили гитлеру и надеялись получить землю в Украине-вот они ее и получили навсегда.
@@chrisconley5483 Zu der Zeit hat halb Europa jemanden verloren, nicht nur die Deutschen..
You're correct. Considering that at least one was Waffen SS, they were also probably guilty of many crimes themselves. Nobody ever wins in the end, just loses less badly.
Marek yes- he was your husband)))
this is truly fascinating, to do this as a job would be awesome. constantly digging up history, the biggest event in the 20th Century WW2.
That’s crazy how the growth just covers it up !
10:01. By the length of this soldier’s leg bones, you can tell he was a tall guy. Long arms and fingers too. Very fitting of a tall Nordic man that would you might picture would be in the Wiking Division.
Maybe his height is the reason he caught a bullet, easier target. His right arm was across his chest, likely clutching where he was shot before he died.
He could be Finnish
@@Christopher-ir2xi why?
@@user-jp2zw4kw3y because it appears that he wears a helmet looking like the Nazi's, it is possible that he is Finnish because Finland was the only nordic axis country. That doesn't mean that he is for sure finnish of course
@@Christopher-ir2xi Or Norwegian.
" Only the dead have seen the ending of the war. " - Latin proverb
Total War: Rome :)
У Запада традиция такая, каждое столетие приходить чтобы занять позиции под землёй.
Wy też lubicie wypady na zachód
@@marcinr.1093 you are right. It is fool to say that the West is the reason of all stuff. We Russians did not much less bad things as I guess. Sorry for all died people even sorry to these solders from this video.
I see bodies of men who been lost for years that died fighting for what they believed in or had been told to do. Thank you guys for finding them I sincerely hope you return them home to their relatives for burial and may they finally rest in peace!! The war is over!! The hatred stops be it German or American soldiers or others we was taught in school that the Germans were so bad so awful but I truly don’t believe that I hope this guy found his final resting place!! Much love fellas if I seen bones it might have been different 😅
Why leftists tearing down military statues is so despicable
This is truly haunting to see. Glad these men are being found and returned home.
They can't tell who he is....
Returned home? Where, the grave yard
@@caliboi3820 there’s somthing called dog tags
@@campbellsoup4646 👈you got me there
@@1van145 No, back to the homeland and his family
If you find a complete dog tag it means that this soldier was at best reported as missing and his fate remained unknown until now, unless someone else witnessed his death and lived to tell. The Wehrmacht dog tags were made to be split in two whenever there was time to do it; one half remained with the body and the other identical half was carried away to be reported as a casualty. Of course, many many times this was impossible to do or the soldier carrying the dog tag half was also killed, and the end result was a complete muddle in body identification. It could hardly be otherwise. The wealthy American Army opted by using two separate Dog Tags, and the Soviet WW II Army used the worse method of all: a strip of paper inside a Bakelite tube hanging from the neck, as most of you know. Nowadays, every time you try to unwind the strip it has totally decayed and disintegrates. We in the Portuguese Army used a round dog tag very similar to the Wehrmacht model. I had a Girlfriend who used one who had belonged to her former late boyfriend. (he died from cancer, not in combat, although one day his truck hit an anti tank mine and he spent several hours trapped underneath and surrounded by bodies)
And she just kept wearing it, wether I liked or not... 💀
I commend the work that this group is doing in the recovery of lost soldiers. However, I think it would be more beneficial to have skilled archaeologists on hand after a site has been located. In my opinion, the methods used in archaeological excavations is more thorough and would treat the remains with much more care then what I have seen in these videos.
These are not archaeological excavations. The main task of the searchers is to find a death badge (from the enemy) or a container with a note (from a Russian soldier) for identification, as well as to collect and rebury the remains in the cemetery. This is a fairly simple job that even teenagers are attracted to.
Theres simply too many dead to find, not enough to properly document in a archeological sense.
Thank you for the video guys! Really enjoyed it and it rekindled my fascination with WWII.
I am a 64yo Pole living in Australia. Few years ago it was my dream to go to Poland, buy a metal detector and do what these guys did. Sadly, the new law makes it a criminal offense to look for and excavate old WWII relics.
I remember in the late 60s while going on scouting excursions with my uncle, we had our camp in a forest near the Baltic Sea and there were lots of old WWII helmets, shells, boots etc. on the surface still. No digging necessary! At the entrance to our tent we were tripping over something that we thought was a tree root, but turned out to be unexploded artillery shell... Sappers were called and the shell was removed. The camp was cancelled after that, it was just too dangerous.
To find the dead and then send them home is the highest honor you could bestow on any fallen soldier. For his family ...Thank You .
He is not dead, he is killed .. He came there for this .. Now these people pay homage to his family .. And what will his family say to these people who will never find the names of millions of their dead there .. "THANKS" !?
@@bikyhroji9016 "he came there for this" this must be the most stupid sentence i heard in weeks. You are not even sure he was here because of his own choice, later in the war (from 1942) the SS were no longer recruiting a lot of their forces from volounteers, but from soldiers from other corps, maybe he was just a common wehrmacht soldier before he got drafted into the SS(for a lot of german soldier being in the SS was a DeathSentence if you were so unlucky to be cought alive by your enemy. ( He was not a foreign volounteer into the SS Wiking by the way, he was a German guy ( even tho the Westland regiment was from the Netherlands, why? Because those buttons on his uniform and the presence of an MP40 makes me think that he is an officer, and only German officers were allowed(from SS-Unterscharführer and up and he was a SS-Scharführer)) that most probably died in the Korsun-Sevcenkovskij's pocket in early 1944)
@@NGbeat1218 Maybe why not .. Perhaps this man was even a Christian, but civilized Europe for the thousandth time needed a "place in the sun" in the east, and he had the opportunity to go on a "safari" to a wild country to bring the light of freedom, and he made his choice ...
@@bikyhroji9016 Killed person is dead. Guys who found him are not assholes with a dirty agenda like you. You miss a lot of points with your blind agenda. He didnt make a choice he was drafted. SS in later years of war was filled with drafted people as well. Just idiots from these days mostly from western europe and US are trying in their arrogance and naivity, and moaning experts on anything aplly these days crap on the past. Not his choice, not even Soviet soldiers choice...they sent them, they went.
@@NGbeat1218 Dont blast this guy with knowledge. He has no capability to understand context and conections. We had both Germands and soviets runing over our country. Hard to say who was worse. Just russian came back in 1968 and forgot to leave for 20 years or so...
"Rest In Peace", unless some random metal detectors find you interesting so near in the future that your children are still alive.
Ghouls. Grave robbers.
Keep in mind, they are reburied in local military cemeteries. There are a few russian units like Vladik that do the recovery faithfully, but there are far too many who resell on collector markets.
these soldiers are still in ww2 just ww2 weapons
@@rodelfuaso2040 and?
i beleve that if this is done in order to try to get final news to a home country, and maby even family. to get some closure. that this is a wonderfull thing. and besides that, metaldetecting peapole are not always grave robbers. there are a lot of them that beleve that nobody should stay behind..
Very heart breaking to watch these soldiers who were very young and wanted to come back home to their loved ones, especially Mothers
Rest in peace 🙏
A "fond acier inoxydable" watch is a watch stamped with those French words meaning "stainless steel back." This stamp can be found on many vintage watches.
Amazing. It’s really fascinating too see a time capsule like that.
Thank you for finding them and closer for the families.
I'm a medical doctor with a master's degree in anthropology and forensic facial reconstruction, and that skull could easily be reconstructed.
He has complete dental arches, and that is the basis for a successful reconstruction.
Doing a good job it would be possible to know with relative ease, what that soldier was like.
I have reconstructed six skulls with a successful approximation in five of them.
Morbidly fascinating!
Much respect for the work you do. Very respectful to the dead.
You look at a sparkplug that a german soldier was carrying in WWII and it really makes you think "Wow, spark plugs have not changed much since then..."
lol
Those were my exact thoughts.
Why change the design of something if it works?
That spark plug was a Bosch spark plug, they still make spark plugs today.
Me Ford Fiesta plugs looked the same
Thank you so much for returning them home. I hope we never have another world war. These soldiers never got the chance to go home and see their families. ❤
So glad these guys families can get some closure on what happened to their family members. The only issue I have is I wish professional archeologists could have worked these sites and document the finds they way pros do. Great work all the same!!
These guys are professionals. Or theyre led by professionals anyway - I guess they have a lot of work doing this. Just watch their other videos and you'll see.
Thanks to these guys. One can not help notice the care being taken exhuming the humans as opposed to equipment and ordinance(which they should probably be more careful with 😳). Obviously they have a sense of history and respect even dealing with those who attacked their country.
When my dad was stationed in Germany in the early 80's, I remember going to elementary school and telling my classmates that we were walking above dead bodies buried in mass graves from ww2. I was just a kid. Now I think there could have been some truth to that.
Scheisse ! Hans sie haben uns gefunden
Wow.. those were some quality boots it seems. Glad that fella got found, even if he was on the wrong side he was still a soldier.
the guy in the first clip took a piece of shrapnel to the back of the skull, either by artillery or a grenade fragment I'm guessing. The hole is far to big to be made by a bullet around that time (unless it was a shot gun) and the skull had major cracks allowing it to break down over time rather than stay intact like other soldiers who have been found, at least it was a quick death yk. RIP to all the young men who didn't get to come home, war is truly hell
Whoa dude you know much about WW2 and such!
Considering that this is in the Eastern front and on the flat Russian plains, there's almost no way it could of been a shotgun which are impractical at far range, likely shrapnel like you said, though I thought it could maybe be a sniper? Soviets had many snipers and it would be relatively practical with the wide open terrain of the Eastern front
@@dauzlee2827 but the Soviets did have some high caliber anti-tank rifles, thought it could've been one of them.
@@thecossackcrusaderofholybr8448 Given the condition of the helmet, the way the metal bends in, I'd say that was likely shrapnel. The human was hit from behind, probably hunkering down during an artillery barrage when he encountered an airburst from a shell. Depending on his position and his gear, it was likely an officer or senior NCO. Given the glasses I'd say it was an possibly an officer. Perhaps he was a forward observer for artillery as well.
I’m pretty sure he was touching his left pec with his right hand meaning he was shot in the heart?
Congratulations for the great job of finding and digging the remains out, but especially for treating them with dignity. So interesting, hopefully their descendants are notified of the finding. Thank you for sharing this.
I was in The Netherlands living and had the opportunity to go into the Aachen area and into the Hurtgen Forrest in many occasions between 1999-2004 with the Boy Scouts. A US Army NCO assigned to the Dutch NCO Academy and even sometimes a US General from NATO would visit our Boy Scouts.
We went to a lot of places, the the first visit was to the Bunkers. We were where the US Army encountered the Siegfried Line the night before the massive German Ardennes offensive AKA the Battle of the Buldge. This particular some months after our visit was able to locate the remains of two or three American GIs remains about 50 feet from the bunkers - the Americans never knew what hit them.
I has seen so much ammo, genades, broken weapons, helments and eating utensils from both German and American soldiers. There is so much history waiting to be uncovered on private lands in Belguim and Germany.
The German Cemetary was tended to by the final remaining soldier of his division, maybe the German 77 Infantry... Two soldiers buried together so that they not spend eternity alone, was the phrase that struck me, as this was how the soldiers were burried, by two's.
We visited the the Kall Trail running along a deep river ravine, and our American NCO Guide showed us the remains of the American Medical Station dugout into the side of the hill on the trail. We had diary's of soldiers that fought in all the battles, but the Kall Trail was one where the Germans and US Medicals paired together with strechers to recovery the wounded, then the dead. We saw pictures of US Soldiers laid on the trail, especially the dead was haunting while standing along side the very trail looking at the places.
Bunkers the US Army never breached in the Hertgen Forrest where wounded Germans soldiers were chained to maching guns by the SS fighting desperatelly to hold the lines with wounded soldiers, soldiers with amputated hands as asst machinge gunners. The diary of the German medic over the weeks with medical supplies, morphine, food, etc. Yet the Germans kept those positions to the end of the war.
In the Battle of the Bulge area we found some bodies with weapons and it was a dark scene for the Boy Scouts, but exciting at the same time. Finding live generades or mortar rounds met stop and don't touch, whether on the beaches of Normandy or on the other adventures.
I was retired from the US Army and served over half my 20-years in the 82d Abn Div. I took my two boys to every battle sight and all the parachute landings of US and British soldiers.
Danke für eure Arbeit mit ausführlichen Bericht
I think the solider had a dislocated leg and broken pelvis on his right side! When you compare the skeletons right trochanter to the left trochanter, you can see that the left trochanter is visible while the right is not. The trochanter could have broken off over the years, or the trochanter was rotated underneath, suggesting that the ball joint was rotated unnaturally in the hip joint and dislocation occurred. The ball joint on the right side is also protruding out of the hip joint socket, where as compared to the the left, the ball joint is still in the socket. The right side pelvis is also displaced compared to the left side. And, If you look at the feet/boots on the solider, the right leg is rotated unnaturally compared to the left!
One shoe, one boot…so sad. Tells the story of very harsh conditions these men were fighting in. RIP.
well, seems normal condition to me, it's war afterall.
@@amirjafari9434 Yeah, harsh conditions are normal in war, that's not far from what she's saying...
Peace from Tunisia
@@amirjafari9434 That’s my point. In war today, our soldiers wear two boots and don’t ever worry about losing one and having to find a random shoe to replace it. Vietnam and further back, this was not the case.
It's not over
Coolest grave ever very sad also, I’m amazed how perfectly the skeleton is. Everything still in tact.
Around 83 years ago they used to make earthquakes all over Europe now they are just piece of skeleton.
*From strongest super power to inside earth*
i cant beleive they excavated down so nicely that they actually found even the buttons. this is amazing
i bet that take a lot of time
Bless you all for looking for fallen soldiers from WW2. Very touching, emotional to see a Wehrmacht soldier lying where he had fallen so long ago. Just pray he did not suffer and so sad that only now are people searching for bodies and omg how m many hundreds or thousands to a million German soldiers were killed on the Eastern front or died from being frozen. It must be a very humbling feeling to discover something like this. Bless this soldier, he has been discovered and hopefully some of his family are still alive and hopefully he can have a decent burial. He was someone’s, husband/lover/ son........who had been fighting for his country and who had died alone, no comfort. Truly so sad what all the soldiers went through no matter who they were. They just wanted the war to end and go home. Salute and Respect and may his Soul and that of other RIP
I think the first one was an SS Officer, possibly Waffen SS or the Wiking SS (foreign volunteers or drafted from other Nordic countries)
RIP Soldier ... You gave higest sacrifice in your line of duty.... Salute... Dont know how long did your family wait for you its been 80 years now..
I found this truly amazing but very emotional.
Wow, that is so amazing. You always see war movies with German soldiers being killed, or real black and white footage from back then, but this is getting closer to the soldiers who really fought. Thanks for piecing together world history
With DNA analysis it could be possible to detected relatives in Germany. Usually it used genetic material from tooth. Rest in peace.
Or just use the id on his dog tag.
If he was from the SS Wiking means that he was probably from Norway, Denmark or Sweden.
Westland were Dutch and Flemish volunteers.
The dog tag at 00:41 Indicates exactly who he was.
Peace from Tunisia
Up until about 15 years ago, skeletal remains were still being found at Little Big Horn "battle" site in USA. The fight happened in 1876
Great job of young brave people!!
Afterall these soldiers are children of someone whose mothers are waiting for them to come home...
Most of them are also someone's brother, father and husband...
It is so heart-breaking that they came to this world only for this.......😟
Schön das die Jungs nach Hause kommen.....Danke....auch für das was Passiert ist eine Grossartige Arbeit von euch...
This is very interesting seeing the relics from the war, amazing
Sorry...Not interesting and amazing.........Zahid from Pakistan
Judging by the spark-plug found in his pocket and the fact that the soldier looks to have been quite tall, most likely Flemish (based on his watch), he could have been a vehicle driver, which might explain why he was wearing a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other. Being tall, it would have been very unconfortable in the footwell, especially over long periods of time. Either that, or some sort of injury to his ankle that was not serious enough for him to leave the war.
Can you tell us more about the timepiece he was carrying?
обалдеть просто, история оживает на глазах, а эти солдаты остались там, навсегда...
Тоже Америка отправила на убой
Descoberta que merece registro histórico. Belo trabalho de escavação. Guerra traz destruição fome e miséria...
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11:26 those combs are exactly the same today, even the writing!
Whatever his side, may his soul rest in peace
This seems incredibly dangerous drigging around old exposives and munitions but it also equally awesome. Much respect to you guys
what is dangerous is touching a dead body and old rusted equipament without gloves
@@bladerj Not a bad idea to wear gloves, but I would be more worried about unexploded ordnance.
@@Beesa10 i wouldnt, they got wet because of where they are, and the primers is problably long rusted.
@@bladerj WW2 era explosives may still pose a threat regardless of being in wet conditions all that time. They may still detonate, this has been demonstrated by bomb disposal operations many times.
I would be more concerned about those UXOs.
I'm for one am grateful to you for returning home the soldiers no matter the uniform they wore , no one should be forgotten . Good work , and good luck with your work .
Stupid !
@@bagussajiwo3309 such an intelligent remark, you've never worn a uniform have you? .Perhaps you'll grow up one day, then again maybe not. Plenty of ignorant people out there as you have clearly shown us.
@@bagussajiwo3309 Such a sad thing to say
Some people DO deserve to be forgotten. Interesting history, nonetheless.
@@truthseekers864 well the people who are bad enough to be deserving of beibg forgotten are probably part of something that shant be forgotten
I love the way they handle the munitions without a care in the world.
We are all the same inside the body, but it is the Editors in Chief that make us look different on the outside of the body.
Excellent work. I'm a retired forensics expert. Those parallel, equal length gashes atop the helmet appear to be multiple edged weapon blows as the cause of death. Likely an axe (wish you'd taken his helmet off and examined the cranium). I developed a theory that he was wounded, and then finished off with overhead swings of a weighted object with sharpened edge (axe?). I see a probable shrapnel hole in the left ilium of the pelvis suggesting he was wounded. The guy was exceptionally bucktoothed. The artillery ammo and the binoculars suggest he was in the artillery. That his ID tag lower was uncollected suggests an enemy burial, but I'm surprised that he'd be buried with a quality Zeiss 6-30 binocular and that no one took his watch.
The subtitles say a farmers tractor implement hit the helmet
🙈какую чуш вы пишите .
Nonsense
it was not an axe, but an agricultural plow, the remains of soldiers are plowed by plows
@@9stag164 and your mom
damn even this is on another level
i am really touched to see the button resting on the bones and around it somehow
the buttons
fell off his jacket
as it rotted away
and onto
his skeleton