Video of WW2 items found west of Volgagrad

The peat and bog that makes up much of the Russian countryside helps with preservation as well.

I recall a video where they hauled out a T-34 from the bog that looks like it had sunk there only the day before...
 
RRCo. said:
These people are basically a bunch of grave robbers looking for trinkets from the dead that they can sell.

(Plenty of MIA's from Korea that no one seems to care about either, but then people generally don't care about much outside their own little sphere, so not so surprising.)
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What are they supposed to go to North Korea and dig around in the soil until they find artifacts?
 
I bet the M44 @2:36 still works. :D
Some of that stuff is in amazing condition.

Also @enefgee, thank you for sharing your great uncles story.
 
enefgee said:
My great uncle was liberated from Stalag 8B by Russian troops, he had to show them where the Russian compound was, as he was the senior NCO on the detail that "fed" the Russians. The Russian compound consisted of a fenced area with machinegun towers - no buildings, food consisted of potato peelings and kitchen slops dumped on the ground from wheelbarrows. The treatment of Russian POW's was absolutely hideous. The Russians took him to the nearest town and told him to take whatever he wanted, gave him a pistol and said that if any of the locals tried to stop him, just kill them. The locals were all in hiding, between the Stalag, the Russian Compound and Auschwitz they were mostly employed supporting the business of genocide. Many of them would walk by the Stalag on Sunday afternoons and laugh at, and taunt the prisoners. He would have been shipped out, as many prisoners were, but he was in very poor condition from being tortured, so he was left behind when the Germans pulled out.
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If your great uncle is still alive you should get this down on tape or video. We have enough neo-nazi apologists around already. Not to mention the "Vee knew nuzzink about zee camps" crowd.

http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/pow/stalag8b-2.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_VIII-B
 
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enefgee said:
My great uncle was liberated from Stalag 8B by Russian troops, he had to show them where the Russian compound was, as he was the senior NCO on the detail that "fed" the Russians. The Russian compound consisted of a fenced area with machinegun towers - no buildings, food consisted of potato peelings and kitchen slops dumped on the ground from wheelbarrows. The treatment of Russian POW's was absolutely hideous.
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and yet it was probably better than the treatment they received once "liberated" by their comrades in the red army.
 
RRCo. said:
If your great uncle is still alive you should get this down on tape or video. We have enough neo-nazi apologists around already. Not to mention the "Vee knew nuzzink about zee camps" crowd.

http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/pow/stalag8b-2.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_VIII-B
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Ah yes. RRCo. turning this into a discussion on Nazism vs. a thread about milsurps dug up. No surprise. :rolleyes:

I have a suspicion that there will be no honouring the war dead by these fellows. Stacking up bones and skulls without keeping the bones together means that ID of them will be damned near impossible now and reburial with the correct parts impossible without DNA testing on each bone.

F*cking grave robbers are all they are. Notice the bodies are still kying perfectly in situ with badges, ID tags and all. Notice they are dug up, trinkets stolen and then stacked like cordwood.

The commies have no shame.
 
Recce21 said:
Ah yes. RRCo. turning this into a discussion on Nazism vs. a thread about milsurps dug up. No surprise. :rolleyes:

I have a suspicion that there will be no honouring the war dead by these fellows. Stacking up bones and skulls without keeping the bones together means that ID of them will be damned near impossible now and reburial with the correct parts impossible without DNA testing on each bone.

F*cking grave robbers are all they are. Notice the bodies are still kying perfectly in situ with badges, ID tags and all. Notice they are dug up, trinkets stolen and then stacked like cordwood.

The commies have no shame.
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I don't give much for Nazi's. Matter-of-fact I downright loathe them. Enough not to even own a Mauser. However, I have to agree with you. The dead deserve a proper burial where possible. Commie or Nazi.
 
I bet a lot of these guys would have been listed as MIA? Imagine what it would mean to a family to have Granddad's MIA changed to KIA and brought home. Disgusting what they are doing. Its that kind of lack of respect for human life that starts wars in the first place
 
Recce21 said:
Ah yes. RRCo. turning this into a discussion on Nazism vs. a thread about milsurps dug up. No surprise. :rolleyes:

I have a suspicion that there will be no honouring the war dead by these fellows. Stacking up bones and skulls without keeping the bones together means that ID of them will be damned near impossible now and reburial with the correct parts impossible without DNA testing on each bone.

F*cking grave robbers are all they are. Notice the bodies are still kying perfectly in situ with badges, ID tags and all. Notice they are dug up, trinkets stolen and then stacked like cordwood.

The commies have no shame.
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You're confused. I replied to a post about POW reminiscences. If you have a problem with that post, address yourself to the poster. I replied to his post. My previous comment in this thread was entirely to the point.

Your silly comment about these people being "commies" merely shows that by your measure all Germans should be considered nazis.

What a surprise.:rolleyes:

As for bones, they're probably Soviet as well as German and if the Germans wanted their bones they could have taken them home with them. After all, they had special teams going around in 1943-45 digging up the mass graves of their genocide victims and erasing the evidence, after they realized they might not vin zee var after all. You'd think they could have spared a bit of trouble for their own dead. I guess they didn't care; any reason why the Russians should?
 
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Chuckbuster said:
Anybody else notice the MP44s? Given that these items were found near Volgagrad (Stalingrad), they are an anachronism. The Germans would have been working on prototypes in late 1942, but the ones in the video seem to be the real deal.
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Yes. I noticed it too. The one at 2:30, right? I was puzzled when I saw it. Could it be something else?
 
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