Military historian Robin Schäfer explains why he and thousands of German families are horrified by a British TV show promoting the looting of German war graves - exactly as happened to his own great-uncle's remains.
In March 1942 my great grandparents were informed that their eldest
son, Heinrich, had been killed in action during a patrol operation in
the area of Krasnaya-Ghorka, in the swamps and pine forests south of
Leningrad in Russia. He was the first of their three sons they would
lose during the war, the other two were killed in action in 1944 and
1945.
They were told that Heinrich had been buried on a divisional burial ground in a place known as Glubotschka, 12 kilometres south-west of Tosno. For my great grandparents these names were just as alien and difficult to place as they were for me, when I started researching Heinrich’s military career in 2006.
They were told that Heinrich had been buried on a divisional burial ground in a place known as Glubotschka, 12 kilometres south-west of Tosno. For my great grandparents these names were just as alien and difficult to place as they were for me, when I started researching Heinrich’s military career in 2006.
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ReplyDeleteThanks and looks like a good blog. Now reading Hitler started the war in Europe.
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