In Narva-Jõesuu, work is underway to exhume the remains of German soldiers. These soldiers died in World War II. Now they plan to rebury them.
During the first three working days, the remains of 40 German soldiers were found. Most of them are marines, but there are also remains of SS soldiers. The ground there is sandy, which helps clean the remains and carefully excavate the burial sites. The work is not yet completed, so the exact number of soldiers is not known. It is estimated that there are about 80 soldiers there.
Dmitri Šutov, head of the search club Kamerad, said that the work is important. Artur Berger, a representative of the German humanitarian organization, added that war brings much suffering. Germany started the war in 1939, and many Germans died both in Estonia and throughout Europe.
Berger said that if you have visited a soldiers' cemetery and seen how many people lie there, you will see that nothing good can be said about war. They started exhumation work in Estonia in 1996, and since then they have reburied about 12,500 soldiers.
The found remains are planned to be reburied at the German military cemetery located in Narva next year.