Finding dead and missing soldiers in Stalingrad - Mass grave of 150 German soldiers - 2015

Russian diggers of the group "Poiskovoe Dvizhenie Rossiy" recover bodies of killed German and Soviet soldiers from mass graves in the area of the former Stalingrad pocket. One mass grave containing 150 German bodies was found during the filming. The Germans in this grave were prisoners of war who apparently died shortly after being captured, as no battle wounds were present on their bodies, and they also had no weapons or ammunition. The Soviet bodies recovered are also prisoners of war, with no battle wounds and little equipment visible, found at the location of the former Vertiyachi POW camp near the Don river.
All the diggers are volunteers, sometimes coming from very far away, in order to locate missing soldiers.

De jeunes volontaires russes exhument des corps de soldats tués lors de la seconde guerre mondiale dans la région de Stalingrad, notamment une fosse commune contenant les corps de 150 soldats allemands.

In Russland findet man ein Massengrab mit die Leichen von 150 Deutsche Soldaten die in 1942-43 gestorben sind.

Battlefield Archaeology - metal detecting - 1942 - 1943 - identification tags - mass grave - exhumation - Wehrmacht - Von Paulus - Battle of Stalingrad - missing in action - Stalingrad Kessel - excavation - Volga - Volgograd - CCCP - Soviet Union - 6th Army surrender - recovery of war victims - God with us - Gott mit uns - God with you? - anthropology - bones - war crimes - erkennungsmarken - 1939 - 1945 - Forensic - christmas 1942 - trench art - helmets - funeral - reburial - killed in action - missing in action

A Crocodile Tear production and documentary.

Some of the more interesting comments that have been posted:

Evan Brown: "The kid on the motorcycle has two wet boob marks on his back as he rides off lmfao"

"The Peace and Reconciliation such was the catastrophe of WW2 . We All Fell Short of Gods Glory "
"If I was a skeleton under a tree, I'd hope in 50 years you'd find me. Stacked like cordwood and left to dust, my steel name prone to rust. With spade and knife and brush of wool, the time threshed off by wanton skill. I'll leave a spoon for you to find, match me to a granite sign. ~Stalingrad"

"One human one bag, and one bag one soul, one bag one brother, father, son, one bag one broken family."
"As I am now, so you shall be, so prepare yourself to follow me."

[captfalconXX]

@7:50 The dude with his swim short in blue, yellow, and green stripes looks like he did not wear the shorts but painted his ass with those colors.

[FXTRT-eclz]

Its phenomenal how the young people in Russia honor their history. Most of the young people in my country couldnt tell yo what happened last week. Much less 70 years ago.

[davideccles]

These young people are showing such respect for there WW2 Russian and German soldiers, they are doing a Great thing, these young people are a Credit to Russia.

[mkilner]

Respect to the volunteers for this grim work, i wish they did this with young kids from all over the world, it would teach them lessons that are not taught n schools, war is horror, RIP to the fallen.

[aliray]

Russians are good people, just as are Germans, Americans and British. This terrible tragedy of politics should never happen again.

[NinjaTeufel]

Thank you for doing this and bringing them home ! Great respect from a german soldier!! . I also found some russian soldiers and managed to bring them home ! May they rest in peace in their homeland !!

[Chrisamos]

It took seventy five years for these soldiers and airmen to be brought back to their home soil, but they’re home now. To the good men that exhumed them, that was some serious labor intensive work, thank you very much, such a noble cause for your fellow man.

[ecuadorexpat]

My Father fought in Stalingrad and so did my uncle .. my father survived and my uncle went missing and was never found
RIP Bruno

[elektronischemusik]

Thanks to all the people involved in this good work. Somewhere there is the favorite brother of my grandmother buried. He got conscripted as he was 19 years old and got killed in action one year later. My grandmother never got over his death. Two other brothers got conscripted each as 17 year olds. One fought in africa and was 7 years away from home, the other fought on the eastern front and was 12 years away. Imagine that your son left with 17 and comes back as a 29 year old broken wreck. Both were horrible traumatized, the one who was on the eastern front had the habit to completely freak out when he got drunk (what was not often the case, but sometimes). He always defended the russian people, he said that the civilians had themselves nothing to eat, but they still shared some food with the german prisoners of war. This war was pure madness.

[TherymasterWidnes]

Respect and please never forget ALL who served in ALL wars, regardless of what uniform they wore. There are no winners in warfare.
RIP to all

[richardconnelly]

I lost a cousin who fought in Russia. He fought in the battle of Kursk and later during the retreat he died with the 10th Panzergrenadier division on the west side of the Dniepr south of Kiev. I would like to go back with volunteers with the German War Graves Commission to see if we can find any fallen soldiers, both Germans and Russians to be identified.

[Marco-bfuu]

My grandpa died there. Rest in Peace. ❤🇩🇪

[jserra]

305, 000 German soldiers laid siege to Stalingrad, fewer than 5000 ever returned to Germany. There were undoubtedly many good men among them.

[nonamebutthisname]

my grandfather's brother died at Stalingrad. He was shot in his leg, it was amputated and he died because the lazaret ran out of antibiotics. My grandfather told me once and ever since knowing I was wondering how many more relatives I'd have if he had survived. We have always been a big family but it is sad that one part was exterminated for some pointless war.

[davidgaston]

as a british soldier in the 1970s i met my beautiful german girlfriend of that time and eventually met her family her father was a survivor of stalingrad captured and spent 10 years in the russian gulag he was a lovely guy he was volkdeautch from an area of poland, his option was either get conscripted into the german army or his family would get enslaved what would you do

[herrbohnen]

What a waste of lives, they were just pawns of politician's ego

[johnbowers]

The level of violence that occurred in that area is stunning

[icantchangemynamefordays]

Good to see Russians are having respect for their once enemies.

[chrisedy]

These young people are learning more than they would in school at least in the US

[goldmanjace]

Please honor these fallen soldiers and report the ID tags to the german government.