We learned about this incredible search from Victoria Simkina, a member Search-Dnepr of Krivoy Rog. He was engaged in the soldiers exhumation.

This Febraury, locals from the Apostolovsky district reached out to Search-Dnepr. It turns out that a construction team laying the water supply came upon the remains of three German soliders. The excavator bucket had hooked upon them!

The remains of two soldiers of the Wehrmacht army.

She reports via Facebook: “Two soldiers. In the pocket of one of them – nails. A carpenter? Builder? Who knows now? And half of the token was found. According to him, it was possible to determine that this Wehrmacht soldier belonged to the Imperial company of the militia battalion.”

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The remains of soldier of the Wehrmacht army.

There were nails in the pocket of one of the Germans.

The burial site of soldiers.

One of the two halves of a German soldier’s personal identification mark.

Thanks to the remains of the identification mark, it was possible to establish that this Wehrmacht soldier belonged to the imperial company of the militia battalion.

More than half a century has passed since the end of World War II, but to this day, search organizations around the world find thousands of missing soldiers of those terrible events.