The guns have become silent for years now and people have moved on from the adverse
effects of war and now their occurrences are only learned in history books.
But this does not guarantee society has forgotten about the
inhuman acts and experiences faced during that
time.
From time to time, we stumble upon remains of the wars fought across time that stirs
up all those buried memories.
5.
A bunker for Goebbels and Hitler's bodyguards discovered in the 9o's.
The Berlin wall fell on 9th August 1989, work then begun to reconnect all sorts of divide
networks between east and west within months.
The entire underground infrastructure was reconnected after which a reconstruction boom
began.
Just near the site where Holocaust memorial was planned to be constructed workers
discovered the WWII bunker while preparing the site.
It was later realized that it belonged to Nazi propaganda minister and Hitler's closest
accomplice Joseph Goebbels.
Goebbels was also one of the strongest advocates of antiSemitism and Jewish genocide, making
it very awkward finding the bunker at the site dedicated
to Holocaust memorial.
He organized oppressive measures and attacks on German Jews since
the start of his rising to power.
The bunker in some way managed to survive the fierce allied
munitions onslaught at the end of the Second World War.
Another bunker belonging to Chauffeurs of the Schutzstaffel also known as SS, a major
paramilitary organization under Hitler in Nazi Germany, was discovered a year early
and was reported to have had Nazi murals on its walls.
Between 1945 and 1949 the Soviets tried to level
Nazi Germany's landmarks in order to prevent the sites from developing into Neo-Nazi shrines.
Hitler's bunker, which climaxed their discoveries, was blown up but only the separation walls
were damaged.
Some of the bunkers were partially flooded.
The 1959 East Germany administration also carried out such demolitions
of the Nazi landmarks and bunkers.
It is only these sites, near the Berlin wall, that remained
neglected.
Germany wanted to celebrate its reunification right after the Berlin wall came down, by
having a concert performance by Pink Floyd in 1990,
in the very spot where the wall used to stand.
The wall area, also nicknamed 'Death Strip'
for 30 years was then swept for mines, during which
workers found yet another secret bunker that belonged to "SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler",
a name known to Hitler's Personal Bodyguard
Division.
It was filled with helmets, some weapons, and intricate Nazi wall murals, because Hitler
was also an artist.
This was a monumental discovery to the historians, despite this,
Berlin sealed off the SS banker almost as soon as it was
unearthed.
Reason being they did not want Nazi sympathizers turning it into a shrine for Hitler.
Today the complex is only marked by an innocuous sign.
4.
Buried Rusty Trunk A rusty trunk was found buried when a few
men decided to explore the World War II battlefield in Russia with their metal detectors.
A short while after deploying the use of the metal
detectors, they were more than thrilled to find something rather large under the dirt.
They were entirely shocked to uncover an old rusty
trunk buried in the ground.
The only thing that could top up their feeling of excitement was
when they opened it up and saw what was inside of it.
The men dag 2 to 3 meters under the ground before they hit something hard, they started
clearing dirt off it and were absolutely delighted to realize it was an old rusty trunk, moments
later they pulled it out of its approximately 70-year-old tomb.
Too eager to open it, they found it full of stuff, a former soldier's personal
belongings that had been long forgotten after the
war.
Consisting of mostly clothes, there were also a few gems in there.
The trunk appears to have belonged to a Nazi soldier, a uniform
with the familiar insignia including the swastika, Nazi's emblem, was found inside.
Other treasures found inside were boxes of cigars and even
bottles of Jamaican rum, a dog tag and also a wallet with some Nazi cash inside.
The soldier was likely to have served the Eastern front, which would prove to be one
of the bloodiest of the war.
Experts are yet to authenticate the trunk but it has been featured on
various history websites.
After such discoveries are made historians then usually go about the
difficult task of tracking down the person's roots or living family.
3.
The Untouched 70-year-old Battlefield In 2010, deep in the jungles of Papua New
Guinea, an Australian trekker and a former army
captain, Brian Freeman, also an expert of the Kokoda Trail found the site of a significant
Second World War battlefield, complete with the remains
of Japanese troops in the very same position they succumbed to death nearly 70 years ago.
It is believed that this is the site where the last
major battle fought between Allied forces, predominantly Australian forces against the
Japanese forces in Papua New Guinea took place from July to November 1942.
While searching for the Second World War maps, Freeman came across documents in relation
to a bloody battle in the remote Papua New Guinea area that led to 79 deaths and 145
wounded for the Australian army.
He, therefore, went on searching for the site and upon
discovery; half a mile away from Eora Creek, Central Province of Papua New Guinea, he realized
that it had remained untouched for the last 70 years.
The local Aola people avoided the battle ground because of a common belief among them that
spirits of the dead soldiers were still present in the area and more sensibly because of the
scattered grenades within the site.
Among the discovered things were rifles, spent ammo
casings, kidney shaped medical trays, military helmets, canteens, military boots, grenades,
remains of soldiers, and even most creepy, a body of a soldier leaning against a tree.
2.
A Nazi Surveillance Post is Discovered in 1981 in North America
During the Second World War, German submarines and U-boats sank allied ships from time to
time crossing the North Atlantic Ocean.
The general knowledge of WWII being an away game
for the U.S and Canada was shattered in the year 1989 when Canada discovered that Germans
had mounted an armed expedition in Newfoundland during the 2 nd World War.
A German U-boat crew erected an automatic weather station in the Northern region of
Labrador, Newfoundland in October 1943.The allied weather network stations in Greenland,
North America, and Ice Land gave the Allies were more accurate than the Germans.
Knowing weather patterns was crucial for the allies
and the Germans knew that if they going to be able
to stand a chance then it were important they had the ability to predict the storms.
Germans, in turn, developed Wetter-Fungerat Land weather station (WFL) manufactured by
Siemens, to get more weather information.
The Newfoundland station was named 'Kurt'.
The WFL was able to broadcast weather readings
2 minutes every 3 hours for 6 months.
The WFL was also marked by the Germans as a property
of the 'Canadian Weather Service' in order to
disguise it.
This complex camouflage proved to be very effective as it managed to fool every
expedition team that encountered it for almost 40 years.
A retired Siemens engineer, Franz Selinger, came to learn of the existence of the station
in the late 70s while going through the archives
of Nazi weather stations in order to write a history of
the company.
Even though his history book never gained much popularity, this particular
finding certainly did.
He then reached out to the Canadian authorities and the Kurt weather
station was later located in 1981.
It is now put on display at Ottawa War Museum in Canad a.
1.
Mystery Photos Though photography was just an infant phenomenon
when the Civil war broke, its use was widespread.
Many soldiers carried with them images of their loved ones into the battles, and
for the first time, photographic images of war were available.
Images of two little girls were stumbled upon among crumpled bodies on Civil war battlefields.
One was retrieved from a slain Union soldier's haversack on a Virginia farm field in 1865
days before a half-decade of blood shed would end
with a signed surrender not far away at Appomattox.
Another was found by Private W. Timberlake of the second Virginia Infantry as he
was walking through the corpse-littered battlefield of Port Royal.
The photo happened to lay exactly between two dead soldiers, one of
them Confederate and the other one a Federal soldier.
There exist no writing on the back of these photographs, and also no notes inside their
wallet sized frames.
There is a good collection of such photos in the Museum of Confederacy in
Richmond, Virginia that soldiers from both sides of the war had given for safe keeping
but were never reclaimed, one most likely reason being
they died in the battle.
These photos depict people who are most likely long dead and tracking
their roots have never been successful.
After Hitler's death on 30th April 1945, the Nazi forces began to surrender.
General Eberhard Kinzel and General Admiral Hans of German
forces surrendered unconditionally to British Field
Marshall Bernard Montgomery.
Photography was very much restricted for the occasion.
Ronald Playforth, a clerk of the British Field Marshall,
managed to take the photograph from the bushes.
The rare colored photo remained hidden for over 64 years until his family decided to
sell it to the highest bidder in 2009.
Hugo Jaeger, Hitler's personal photographer also regularly used colored films.
At the end of the war buried his war photographs near Munich
and kept them like that until 1965 when he sold
them to Life Magazine.
The colored photographs were then published in 2009 in an online
gallery.
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