Graphic Art - Inspired by history.

[earlbrooks]

Just watched a documentary "World War Wierd"
Malbork Poland.
They describe an old mass grave discovered by accident in the year 2008.
About 2000 men women and children corpses found buried naked.
Many with bullet holes in their skulls.
No clothing nor identity could be found.
Bones scattered shows no dignity nor respect for the naked victims.

Investigators believe is was during the Soviet army, March 1945 who
created this mass grave.

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In summary: Naked executions were used common during WW2 ?!?!

[RolandVT]

Investigators believe is was during the Soviet army, March 1945 who
created this mass grave.

Not the case. In October 2008, during excavations for the foundation of a new hotel in Malbork, a mass grave was found containing the remains of 2,116 people. All the dead were said to have been German residents of pre-1945 Marienburg, but they could not be individually identified, nor could the cause of their deaths be definitely established.

A Polish investigation concluded that the bodies, along with the remains of some dead animals, may have been buried to prevent the spread of typhus, which was extant in the turmoil at the end of World War II. The investigation was thus closed on 1 October 2010 as no justifiable suspicions of any crime were found.

Majority of the dead were women and children most likely dead from hunger, diseases, cold and as collateral casualties of war operations, only a few of the bones had markings showing possible gunshot wounds. On 14 August 2009, all the dead people's remains were buried in a German military cemetery at Stare Czarnowo in Polish Pomerania, not far from the German border.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbork#World_War_II

P.S. Such sensationalist "documentaries" that you mentioned, are usually NOT trustworthy

[earlbrooks]

Roland wrote: "Such sensationalist "documentaries" that you mentioned, are usually NOT trustworthy"

True words - the documentary narrator was hyper and very animated.
Like the modern American TV news reporters. (Shame)

The various skulls with bullet holes gets me however.

Thank you for your input!!

[RolandVT]

The various skulls with bullet holes gets me however.

Stray bullets from attack aircaft - happened all the time (all aircraft-based machine guns were highly inaccurate... and the Soviet pilots had little training so their bullets hit civilians all the time). Could be caught in crossfire between Wehrmacht and Red Army land troops - hundreds of thousands died that way in the USSR, Eastern Europe, Austria, Norway and Germany.

Poles have no love for Soviets (or Germans) so if they concluded that no crime has been committed (and they did) then it was the case.