Construction workers make grisly discovery
Bodies of 1,800 WWII Germans found in Poland mass grave
Construction workers made a grisly discovery in the Polish town of Malbork when they uncovered a Second World War mass grave containing the bodies of 1,800 German civilians.
The first skeletons had been found at the site in Poland in October, but yesterday the Public Prosecutor’s Office revealed that the body count now totals 1,800.
“[The grave includes] the remains of women, men and children,” public prosecutor Waldemar Zduniak said.
“Some of the corpses display signs of bullet wounds.”
Bernard Jesionowski of the Malbork Museum told the Polish PAP press agency: ““It could have something to with the German civilians who were killed during fighting between German and Russian troops at the beginning of 1945.”
The WWII German military authorities had told the civilian population to leave the city at the end of 1944, but several thousand inhabitants remained.
Their fate is so far unknown, according to Jesionowski – but the mystery may now have been solved.
