Second World War

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• Hardware findings 1
• War at sea 4
• War in the air 8
• War crimes 24
• Ammunition and weapons 0
• Remembrance events 0
• Period photographs 0
• The end of the war in the Czech Republic 2
• War treasures 4
• Nazi treasures 3
• Fortification 1

2. 5. 2019

2. 5. 2019 The RAF pilot was buried after 74 years

After more than seventy years, Ensign John Henry Coates' relatives were finally able to bury his body. An RAF pilot was shot down during one of the missions in Italy. Archaeologists have found his remains with a damaged Spitfire plane near Venice.

24. 4. 2014

April 24, 2014 Bodies of executed Germans

Seven years ago, the Hradec Králové regional forensic scientists focused on an area that historical sources and witnesses describe as the site of the mass grave of five Germans shot in June 1945. It was located in the village of Rudník in the Trutnov region.

23. 4. 2011

April 23, 2011 Ruined German fighter

The torso of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, which crashed in August 1944, was discovered ten years ago near Deštná in the Jindřichův Hradec region. It was located under a layer of clay. According to historians, it was a unique find.

28. 3. 2013

28.3. 2013 Whiskey from the period of World War II

Two bottles of whiskey from the wreck of the SS Politician were available for at least 9,000 pounds eight years ago. She sank during World War II off Eriskay Island. Most of the crates of alcohol were discovered by locals.

They discovered the bodies of nuns who had been brutally murdered

Archaeologists have recently discovered the skeletons of Catholic nuns who were murdered by the Red Army at the end of World War II. Their discovery closes with months of searching. They lost their lives in a particularly brutal way while helping in the hospital. The soldiers also killed patients.

A shocking message from the past: children's identification stamps in the Sobibor extermination camp

Excavations at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland have revealed four identification marks of murdered Jewish children. All came from Amsterdam, which was part of the targeted extermination of Dutch Jews in the spring and summer of 1943. In this camp alone, more than a quarter of a million people, thousands of young children, including infants, were cruelly murdered in just 16 months.

War 2020 - first special LP release this year

In January we will have a selection of the best December finds, but this is a specialty for fans of mainly WWII finds. So we have a winner!

25. 12. 2014

25.12.2014 Archival wines in a Nazi bunker

Six years ago, a pair of searchers from Poland found archival wine in a Nazi bunker. They were exploring the cramped maze of Third Reich tunnels near the town of Swinoujscie. It's believed that no one has set foot there in the last 70 years.