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Small coffins with the remains of fallen German soldiers of WWII are placed in the mass grave during a funeral service at a ...

Hundreds of villagers and relatives of fallen soldiers watched silently, some wiping tears off their cheeks, as the soldiers ...

Truman designated May 8 as VE Day and the western allies followed suit, according to the museum. However, the Soviet Union ...

HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin ... as the soldiers who died in one of the last large battles of World War II fighting for Adolf Hitler’s army got their final resting place.

HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small ...

Cancel anytime. Workers of the German War Graves Commission exhume the remains of German WWII soldiers in Ostrołęka, Poland, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) A worker of ...