WWII German war prisoner remains exhumed in Kaunas

Danutė Rukienė, senior specialist at the Kaunas Cultural Heritage Division, says tests had shown that the location was once a burial site for two German POW camps. Remains of the prisoners of war who died of exhaustion, diseases and other causes were buried here.

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Specialists believe that up to 400 prisoners of war could be buried here. After being exhumed, the remains will be reburied in a section of the Kaunas cemetery for German soldiers.

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