« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 17 March 21 22:36 GMT (UK) »
Hi
Diane Tempel-Barnett, spokeswoman for the German War Graves Commission (VDK), told German radio "to be honest we are not very excited about the discovery. In fact we find it all most unfortunate". It is hard to imagine the Commonwealth War Graves Commission taking a similar line if the bodies of 270 UK troops were found.
I think this sentence was misunderstood, I think she meant that the way this discovery happened was very unfortunate. As far as I know you have to get in contact with de VDK if you are aware of the location of a (yet unknown) German War Grave instead of doing some digging by your self, and you shouldn't make it public via a newspaper.
By the way I'm a member of two German Genealogy Forums and I don't remember that I've ever read about this Winterberg tunnel discovery. I know some people there who could be of great help to identify some soldiers who died in this tunnel. As the article mentions a regiment of the Baden army it is possible that the service records of this soldiers are online.
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Svenja
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