#4492324 - 10/10/19 04:18 PM
Re: WW2 still finding bodies
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PanzerMeyer
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I wonder what will be done with the remains? Returned to Germany or maybe just cremated on site?
By the way, how do they know the remains are German? Were there fragments of a uniform on it?
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#4492337 - 10/10/19 06:12 PM
Re: WW2 still finding bodies
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On September 6 , 1944, German Rearguard Troops from the Wehrmacht succeeded in using some strategically placed cannons To join the Allied advance of Hasselt towards the Netherlands at the traffic junction of Hechtel to slow down. The Fallschirmjäger relied specially from Germany in Hechtel. It came to house-to-house battles. The battle was committed after the Allied Irish Guards made a surround movement in northeast Direction via Eksel and overpelt on September 10th . They managed to get into the neighbouring Lommel from factory sites in Overpelt, which made a German retreat impossible in the northern direction. [1] The German paras in Hechtel were surrounded. On 12 September they surrendered. Some of them could break in eastwards via Peer to dischargethe 15 km away, where they formeerden behind the canal again. In The following months they participated in the Battle of the Peel. The seven days long struggle cost life to over ninety British and about 150 to 300 German soldiers. Thirty-six inhabitants of Hechtel died. Most of them were executed by the Germans without any reason or process. [source?] A few days later, the Germans who died in Hechtel were put in mass graves on site, but then reburied at the nearby German soldiers ' cemetery in Lommel.
Translation from Dutch Wiki.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#4492348 - 10/10/19 07:12 PM
Re: WW2 still finding bodies
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"Just before the surrender the Germans had rounded up the men from the village and were preparing to shoot them out side the church,"
I would be interested in finding more background info for this and specifically what was the motive of the Germans to attempt this atrocity. Was it simply revenge because they lost the battle and knew they would be surrendering or retreating?
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