Researchers have discovered the remains of five people, including an infant, during excavations at the home of Nazi Germany’s Air Force Chief Hermann Goering, located on the grounds of Adolf Hitler’s former headquarters in Poland. This is reported by Der Spiegel magazine.
The terrible discovery was made by German and Polish archaeologists, who are excavating in the territory of Hitler’s former headquarters and command complex of the German army, known as “Wolfschanze” (“Wolf’s Lair”), located in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of modern Poland. Here was also the headquarters of the institution led by Gering.
It is said that Gehring’s house was considered to be thoroughly studied, but one of the archaeologists noticed the remains of an old wooden floor. As a result of further excavations, water pipes were first discovered, and then a fragment of a human skull. Later, the skeletons of five people were excavated: three adults, a teenager and a child. Moreover, all of them are missing arms and legs.
According to archaeologist Octavian Bartoshevsky, it is quite possible that the bodies were buried after the construction of the house, because the builders who laid the pipes would have discovered human remains sooner. However, it is not excluded that the remains were buried already after the end of the Second World War.
The Polish Prosecutor’s Office has initiated an investigation.
“Wolf’s Lair” was a complex of more than 80 bunkers and fortified buildings built in the forest, occupying an area of 250 hectares, surrounded by barbed wire, minefields, observation towers, machine gun and artillery positions. German troops left it in January 1945, in the face of a powerful attack by Soviet troops.
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