Pasang Pipa Air, Tukang Temukan Kuburan Masal 1.837 Tentara Jerman

Jumat, 14 Desember 2018 - 10:00 WITA - diterbitkan oleh Van Robin

Secara keseluruhan, arkeolog militer telah menemukan 1.837 tubuh yang semuanya adalah tentara Jerman (BNPS)

Hargo.co.id – Pengingat suram Pertempuran Stalingrad pada Perang Dunia II telah ditemukan. Sebuah kuburan masal yang memuat hampir 2.000 tentara Jerman ditemukan 75 tahun kemudian. Dilansir dari Dailymail pada Rabu (12/12), lubang besar berisi hampir 1.800 lebih jasad tentara Jerman itu ditemukan tanpa sengaja oleh tukang yang mau memasang pipa air baru di Volgograd (Stalingrad), Rusia.

Mereka memberi tahu pihak berwenang, termasuk Komisi Kuburan Perang Jerman, dan penggalian secara hati-hati telah dilakukan. Secara keseluruhan, arkeolog militer telah menemukan 1.837 jasad yang semuanya adalah tentara Jerman.

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Juru bicara itu mengatakan,tag ID juga telah ditemukan. Sekarang tad ID sedang dibersihkan sebelum proses identifikasi dimulai (BNPS)

Mereka juga menemukan sisa-sisa kuda yang tewas bersama orang-orang dalam pertempuran yang paling besar dalam Perang Dunia II dan yang paling berdarah sepanjang masa, dengan sekitar dua juta orang tewas, terluka atau tertangkap

Pekerjaan yang melelahkan untuk mencoba dan mengidentifikasi korban sekarang sedang berlangsung. Jasad para tentara Jerman juga akan diberikan penguburan yang layak pada upacara militer di kota.

Kuburan masal dengan panjang 430 kaki, lebar 23 kaki dan kedalaman 7 kaki, ditemukan di distrik Angarsky di Volgograd.

Seorang Juru Bicara Komisi Kuburan Perang Jerman menjelaskan, mereka awalnya berpikir bahwa 800 mayat dikubur di kuburan masal tetapi angka itu naik lebih dari 1.000 setelah penggalian. “Pada awal Oktober kami melaporkan 800 orang tewas pada perang di Stalingrad, yang berubah nama menjadi Volgograd,” ujarnya.

Setiap tahun di Volgograd rata-rata tiga hingga empat kuburan masal ditemukan. Temuan dalam skala ini cukup istimewa. Juru bicara itu mengatakan,tag ID juga telah ditemukan. Sekarang tad ID sedang dibersihkan sebelum proses identifikasi dimulai.

“Biasanya kerabat akan merasa lega kalau mengetahui nasib tentara yang hilang dalam perang itu. Mereka akan senang jika jasad tubuh kakek atau paman mereka dikuburkan. Ini sangat penting untuk keluarga tentara Jerman yang tewas di medan perang tersebut,” ujar juru bicara itu.

Penulis kisah Stalingrad, Michael Jones mengatakan, Pertempuran Stalingrad adalah kekalahan katastropik bagi Angkatan Darat ke-6 Jerman. Sebulan setelah menyerah, pada awal Maret 1943, Letnan Soviet Vladimir Gelfand mengunjungi Kota Stalingrad.

"Dalam buku hariannya dia menulis pemandangan mengerikan sebuah kota yang hancur dengan ribuan mayat bergelimpangan di semua sudutnya," tambah Jones. JOnes melanjutkan, Gelfand kemudian memerintahkan sebagian jenazah ditumpuk sebelum dikuburkan bersama-sama. "Penemuan di Angarsky yang berisi 1.800 jenazah tentara Jerman sesuai dengan apa yang dicatat Gelfand," ujar Jones.

Jones menambahkan, dirinya yakin jika ada veteran perang Rusia yang masih hidup saat ini, mereka akan menentang pemakaman tulang belulang tentara Jerman itu. "Sisa-sisa jenazah ini kemungkinan akan dipindahkan ke pemakaman militer di Rossoschka yang berisi jenazah para tentara Jerman dan Rusia," kata Jones. "Meski sejumlah veteran Tentara Merah akan menentang semua bentuk penghormatan bagi lawan mereka yang gugur di medan pertempuran itu," kata dia.

(ina/JPC)

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Workers laying water pipes discover mass grave of 1,837 German soldiers

Friday, 14 December 2018 — 10:00 WITA — published by Van Robin

Military archaeologists ultimately recovered 1,837 bodies, all of them German soldiers.

Hargo.co.id — A grim reminder of the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War has been uncovered. Seventy-five years later, a mass grave containing almost two thousand German soldiers was discovered.

According to the Daily Mail, workers preparing to install a new water system in Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, accidentally came across a huge pit filled with the remains of nearly 1,800 German soldiers.

They immediately notified the authorities, including the German War Graves Commission, and a careful archaeological excavation was arranged.

The work eventually uncovered the remains of 1,837 people, all identified as German soldiers.

A representative said that an identification tag was also found. The tag is being cleaned before the identification process begins.

Horse remains were also discovered alongside the human dead from one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Second World War. Around two million people were killed, wounded or captured in the fighting.

Specialists are now carrying out painstaking identification work. The German soldiers are expected to be reburied ceremonially with military honours.

The mass graves in Volgograd’s Angarsky district measured about 430 feet (131 metres) long, 23 feet (7 metres) wide and 7 feet (2 metres) deep.

A representative of the German War Graves Commission explained that the first estimate was approximately 800 bodies, but excavations increased the number by more than a thousand.

“At the beginning of October we received information about a mass grave in the Stalingrad area, now Volgograd, where approximately 800 people had been buried. Once the work was completed, it became clear that the grave contained the remains of more than 1,800 people,” he said.

Three or four mass graves are found in Volgograd in an average year, but a discovery on this scale is unusual. An identification tag was also found and specialists are cleaning it before attempting to identify the dead.

“Relatives are usually relieved when they finally learn the fate of a family member who died in the war. For many people it is very important that the remains of a grandfather or uncle are buried with dignity,” the commission representative added.

Michael Jones, author of a book on the Battle of Stalingrad, noted that the battle was a catastrophic defeat for Germany’s Sixth Army. A month after the surrender, in March 1943, Soviet lieutenant Vladimir Gelfand visited the devastated city.

“In his diary he describes a horrifying scene: the entire city had been reduced to ruins and thousands of unburied bodies lay everywhere,” Jones said.

According to Jones, Gelfand ordered the bodies to be collected and buried in mass graves. “The find in the Angarsky district, where around 1,800 bodies were discovered, corresponds to Gelfand’s description,” he added.

Jones also believed that surviving Red Army veterans might have opposed honouring the German dead. “The remains will most likely be transferred to the military cemetery at Rossoshka, where German and Soviet soldiers are already buried,” he said. “Although many Red Army veterans understand the idea of respecting fallen enemies, others remain categorically opposed to any form of honour for German soldiers who died there.”