HDF begin exhuming more than a thousand former prisoners of war
Text: defence.hu | Photo: Kinga Szováthy | 13:05 April 22, 2024”Out of those deceased in the former Baja POW camp, 1023 German and Hungarian soldiers and laborers were reinterred in three large mass graves opposite the barracks in 1948. Exhumation work in the area has already begun” – wrote recently Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky on his social media profile.
The Hungarian Defence Forces have not carried out such a large-scale exhumation yet. The earthly remains will receive a worthy and permanent resting place in the German–Hungarian military cemetery of Székesfehérvár – wrote the minister. The exhumation of the remains is being conducted by the experts of the MoD Military History Institute and Museum and the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge) together.
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