We find a German WW2 soldier (and get him re-buried) - Battlefield Recovery
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
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Latvian Ministry of defence
Raimonds Grauba, commander of Latvian national army
Aeija Fleija: Director, Latvian war museum
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The one good thing about all of this is that regardless of what side he was on you have gave him his dignity back even after death. Bless you all for doing such a personal and wonderful thing for someone xx
The soldiers regardless of their leaders or commanders orders and other actions were dedicated , deeply loyal to their country ! They deserve the dignity and respect that we give and should give any and all warriors ! In their day that were indeed a brilliant fighting force ! Though they may have followed a flawed and cruel regime they were indeed in their own way victims of it themselves ! May this soldier now rest in peace !
We found a German soldier from ww2. On Lunen berg heath. He was re buried, and the grave marked, and reported to our Bn HQ.
Hmmm, I wonder IF that could have been Heinrich Himmler's body, he was buried in an unmarked grave on Luneburg Heath?
Neil,thankyou for your reply,what was dug up with the bone was a machine pistol, obviously rusted to hell.
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Thank you for this Kris, .....It's hard to imagine the horror and fear these soldiers went through. No matter what side they were fighting on they were still someones son , brother , cousin. Respect to you guys for searching for these lost souls, to give some sort of closure to the families. Sorry you couldn't find out who he was, but at least now he will get a decent burial .
It’s easy to understand the horrors that Hitlers forces, (especially the SS), inflicted on every enemy soldier and civilians they encountered. Giving his remains a decent burial is more than the poor souls who he personally put to death will ever get.
@@flagstafup5857and stalin’s army and revolution didn’t inflict horrors? You have a really one sided view of history
@@Sketch_Sesh Is this a Russian soldier being dug up? No it’s not. It’s the remains of a German SS soldier.
Indeed sir well spoken !
@@Sketch_SeshOh Lord , in my study of history Stalin was a worse horror ! He ravaged and executed his own people !
I come from a military family snd I have been witness to the Japanese honoring our fallen at the Pearl Harbor ! We unleashed the bomb on them and still they honor our fallen ! It is a point of respect ! I personally walk and try to recover Civil War battlefields ! I don’t collect relics from the field ( I find it disrespectful ) but many do ! I walk and look to recover soldiers and give them proper burial and identity ( when possible ) ! We have even returned some to their homes or their regiments of their brothers ! Both Union and Confederate , and yes we are still finding them ! They are still there under our soil here ! The battlefields of Europe and the eastern front are still rich with the bodies of some Mothers son ! God give them peace ! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😰😰😰😰💔❤️💔❤️❗️
I respect one keeping relics buried. On the otherhand it would be better off donated to a museum
So incredible yet so sad what these men had to go through, now ik why my grandpa said "be greatful you're born in the 2000s and not the 20s." My grandpa fought in D-day (he was a combat medic during dday) He told me it sounded like hell with all the screaming, rapid gun fire and all the dead bodies, he even told me he was helping a wounded soldier when his best friend got shot 10-25 times in front of him, his friend was only 19 years old, RIP to the 4,500 men that lost their lives🙏🏾❤
Regardless of nationality, its our young that die in these wars, these brave young men. A mother and a father who never again saw their child. A soldier has been returned with his comrades. thank you.
I dug around San Pietro and Monty Cassino. I found metal and uniforms only 4 inches under. The fields gave more relics. We found cases of live mortar shells in the stream behind the Abby
I could help but tear up a bit when they pulled out the soldiers razor ! Personal items are the most painful to find ! It brings their life home to you ! It hurts , I have actually found lettered and diaries ( intact basically) tucked away in tight leather pouches that I reserved the paper , read them ! Read what a soldier writes then you know their heart , it’s never if hate , of race or destruction it’s always of home , of family of love of longing and loneliness and a great deal of hunger ! They all just wanted to make it home ! 😰😰😰😰😰💔💔💔🙏🏻
loved this series, its what made me find your channel when i first watched it. I know you had issues because of this but if its any small victory please know the knowledge and history you guys have passed on was invaluable to us!
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I loved watching this series when it first came out, and would love to rewatch it.
Although rewatching it from your perspective, especially as i only recently watch your video where you talked about the horrendous time you had with production/ tv company. Just know you did amazing work. My ancestry who perished in ww2 as undesirables (Roma), thank you for returning to these places and bringing back the dead.
Cheers, Kris!😊
DANKE 🙏
I was told that in Scotland where thistles grow there is a most probable likelihood of a deceased animal or body. I recently corresponded with Steven in the video and he does in deed know vast knowledge about WW2 Explosives. great clip.
I had a German incendiary bomb fin when I was a kid, it was painted gold.
what is this show called?
Thank you for bringing this battlefield into perspective
Thats the gun expert from Pawn Stars
There should be an organization that takes and samples DNA from these remains and puts them in a database and that way anyone with any relation to said sample who gives DNA could possible identify the loved one for even more closure.
Good work!
Nice goin m8s, thanks, stay vertical Eh!
Where did that gun came form 😮🤨
Just out of curiosity, are you using Finnish Fiskars shovels?
Ain't Craig the guy from the pawn shop show?
Yes
A farmer wouldn't bury s body in a cultivated field
Im from Latvia 😀😀😀
It was watching one of these episodes with these guys where I found out about you on CZcams.
Nice one Kris. 👍🏻
The german button and german razor could've been battle field loot that russians picked off a german soldier, so I don't think it's good to assume he's german based only on that, Even if it was german positions. It could've been a russian killed by retreating troops.
That short haired guy in the red coat. He’s been in a lot of pawn star episodes.
thats how u know hes a legit expert
@@illumina9489also a scammer
Expert?
Check out his feedback on all websites!
See Thomas Whitmann military show and relationship! Awkward!!
Some mines are still active there BE CAREFUL
A fantastic video well done all
I've been watching you for years . I thought you had issues with the way the company was with this documentary ? But nun the less still a good thing to see.
They might get a DNA test from the bone to find living relatives.
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So fascinating, I love looking at these videos and appreciate the people who take their time to research and find and pin point these sites,, the STG44 looks a little like my AR-15 as my rifle is not a Assault Rifle because it's semi-auto with a 30 round Magazine unlike the MP4 thats fully automatic and only the United States Military has access to are the Assault rifles , all of this is very fascinating hopefully DNA can identify them so nexted to kin can possibly be notify, Greetings from the United States 🇺🇸
There is no such thing as an "assault rifle ". It's a term made up by journalists,who had probably never even held a firearm.
@@Mercmad Uh no, Sturmgewehr literally means Assault Rifle.
This. At least someone knows what they’re talking about 👍🏻
It literally translates as assault rifle 😂
@Mercmad the Journalist are always calling our AR-15s assault rifles they are ignorant. AR stands for ArmaLite rifle.
STG44>ST=Sturm G=Gewehr 44=Das Jahr der ersten Inbetriebnahme@@Mercmad
"black diggers" comedy gold
I found amarican soulders in ww2 on normandy beach D-DAY
Was this on tv ?
It was. And Netflix.
@@Addictedtobleeps what is the show called?
You guys are amateurs.
That's not an MP44 it's a Sturmgewehr 44!
Yes first assault rifle...sort of
....you know those are the same thing, yeah?
While I really don't appreciate what Hollywood did with it or anything lately for that matter.. I really loved your part and what you do, the history YOU save. and share with us is always so important and appreciated, At least from me, friend.
18:28 Is that a bounty hunter I spy 😊👍🏽
Justin, thankyou for your reply. There was no one called Justin when the soldier was dug up and then reburied . So yes it happened.
DNA possible to match? Was this done?
Wtf even is this??
They go to a battlefield and dig up relics.. Then they try to harm the fallen soldier with their big excavator and destroy the whole nature. After finding nothing more they shoot with a rifle and break the piece of the place completely. Why dont you leave the fallen rest where they were burried peacefully??
Because the landowners are behind the massive repatriation of the 1.5 million still out there. Corpses are coming up everywhere as they plough their fields and make changes to their land. The government are behind this. Same with the army and live ordinance which is everywhere.
As you’ll see in the description, we have full cooperation of both.
Repatriation is good. Farmers are good.
@@Addictedtobleeps yes I agree... But it kinda seems like there is not that much respect but more like senation catching.
It also is questionable that the soldiers have to be buried again because they were on these spots...
But thank you for the answer 👍
It’s a mess out there. That’s why they call it battlefield recovery. It’s a case of getting as much out, in a short manner of time - or it goes to the plough blade, which is way worse. At least this way, we are adding to the official stats of WW2 and repatriation.
Unfortunately, a whole corpse is rare, hence the diggers etc. there’s teeth just lying on the surface. Bones everywhere. All on the surface. Due to huge amounts of explosions.
I think Legenda are at 60’000 repatriated now (all from their own time as volunteers) which is better than none 👍🏻
Even though I was a presenter in this, and am not really happy with how the story was ‘sold’ (didn’t need to be so Hollywood) I’m proud I got 60-ish people proper burials in all.
Very interesting and sad video but at least he's know laid too rest.We don't know what his SS past was we can only assume!!😎🐓🐓🐓🐓🇬🇧
Their starting to realize, they fought the wrong enemy 😮
Shut up
HE SAYS IT WAS AN ELEGLE SEARCH, THEN THEY RING FOR A JOURNALIST"" ??????
I think you need to watch the video back again…
Black what? Nigerians?
Not trying to be an arse with this comment just simply to promote a discussion and ask a question. Is it not possible that a russian could have simply just looted the razor? As said in the film "would a russian have a razor that good". Perfect reason to take a better one. Seems a hell of a jump to bury him in a german cemetery based on that alone.
Was there more infomation that didn't get shown?
Hi, Bjorn. Yes, absolutely. You don’t see them here, but we were monitored by teams from the war museum and Legenda, who were also digging around and beside us. I believe they found uniform i remember rightly? It was more than ten years ago now, and we’d repatriated a lot of bodies, so the memory is a bit sketchy.
But yes, they were confident he’d gone to the right grave. The production team missed quite a few opportunities and key story parts along the way.
young men sent to die in old men's wars.
Indeed ! Tragically true !
So I have a question we have 1 American and 3 Englishmen what is so fascinating and important about finding a German body or German relics over your own countrymen
I think it’s pretty obvious isn’t it? It’s the Kourland pocket. German and Russian battles.
The Americans and British weren’t directly involved.
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Because this is history , the story of us snd our foes are a human story , as we find them we u destined more of ourselves and capture some bit of our own humanity ! All soldiers regardless of what we believe was in his heart or even the regime he fought for he was a soldier , he was his counties military with that he even as a foe deserves respect and dignity ! Ask any military man or military family , we honor even our foes ! For they were worthy and made us be better soldiers ! That’s why they are looking , that why digging , that’s what they want to do !
Bit weird your looking for SS soldiers instead of like, Gurkas and Brits feom DDay...but nice I guess
Because the laws are very different. As are the numbers. 1.5 million all over the place in Latvia. They need clearing and moved to the proper graves.
Dday is a very very different situation. As are the laws surrounding repatriation.
The background music is too loud, so people with less than perfect hearing cannot make out what is being said! I have tinnitus, so between the whistling that never goes away, and the musical noise, I'm struggling to hear the commentary.
Hardly kris fault
Blame the producers and editors
Subtitles?
Just a lot of talking, making simpel shreapnell finsa important. More dingen guys, lessen talking.
I love the work you are doing…however, please do not take the Name Of Jesus Christ in vain.
Jesus it freedom of speach calm yourself lol
Interesting thought……… whilst you was filming this video, Russia was invading ukraines crimea in 2014.
This is old footage mate from 2013/14
@@danevans1643Russia invaded Crimea in 2014 👍🏻
@@Addictedtobleeps fair enough I thought he meant the most recent war lol
@@danevans1643 Understood 👍🏻
@@Addictedtobleeps Would recommend typing this into the description. Incase people ask in the future.
This video is has got to be staged
its from a tv-show on Netflix
Remember though these were not German soldiers they were SS, the ones that committed war crimes. Ordinary soldiers of any nation should be respected and treated to a decent grave, but murderers and thugs, not so much.
We helped the wrong team.
Except that they were soldiers though- committing those crimes doesn’t change the fact they were apart of the army
@@silversouloftime8582 These bodies are of men who with their co=murderers had committed horrendous crimes in all the countries they pillaged. These bodies could very well have committed atrocities against YOUR ancestors. .Psychopaths in uniform, not the grunts that were herded into battle by their leaders,
Its the past so let be it
They deserve to be respected they are soldier and a warrior
Maybe sometimes check for dog tags