Sixty-eight years ago ended the Second World War.Excavations continue to this day.
What motivates locals and visitors from afar archaeologists pick up a shovel, going to places of past battles?In most cases, it is, alas, greed.The found artifacts - silent witnesses of somebody's life and death - are in our pragmatic age of their market value.Excavation of the Second World War has become an urgent business.
«Black" diggers looking for anything that might be of material value.It remains the most profitable occupation - primarily Germans and Romanians, Italians, Spaniards, Hungarians and other representatives of countries participating in the war against the Soviet Union.The reason is that in their knapsacks are sometimes amusing subjects of interest to collectors.
What could be a Soviet soldier?In addition to the stars on his cap, except that, as the song goes, "a letter from the mother but a handful of his native land."Mortal medallions charter of the Red Army did not provide, and sometimes the soldiers themselves they were made, but this was rare, it was considered a bad omen.Excavation of the Second World War in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, unfortunately, rarely lead to the fact that it turns out the person who died, and if it does, it is usually because of the preserved documents, letters, and metal objects, which the owners name scratched.Often the remains are under a shallow layer of soil, literally decimetres of the surface.
diggers have much luck finding is considered to be jewelry, including rings SS, winning with Nazi symbols, belt buckles, buttons, Badges, knives c imperial eagles.Well go to the highest bidder helmets, canteens and other ammunition.
informal diggers in the nineties sometimes found in the restored land, "trunks" for sales representatives of the criminal world.Today, this method of weapons lost relevance, modern pistol or a machine is cheaper.
excavation of World War II produced as "black" and "white" archaeologists.Between them there are two main differences: First, the existence of documents confirming the right to search works, and secondly, goals.Groups created officially looking for the remains of soldiers to report that one unknown soldier became less.Items found in this case, transferred to relatives in memory of the heroic deceased ancestor, except, of course, weapons.
Of particular interest is the historical aspect of military equipment, usually flooded.In Odessa bay it has recently been discovered by divers three-engine transport "Junkers" - U-52.Among the things on board - a tablet with topographical maps, which have been put plans the retreat of German troops.How did the destruction of the headquarters of the aircraft on the outcome of the liberation operation, to be evaluated scholars and historians.Other important excavations of the Second World War, tanks, planes, cars, ships.The serial number stamped on the supporting structure, it is possible, using the archives of Defense to determine who ran this technique.
Grassroots "Missing" was a result of the huge losses incurred by the warring parties in the Soviet Union.However, the excavation of World War II sometimes reveal unknown pages of history in North Africa, in Europe and in other regions covered by the flame of those years.In 1998, French experts made a statement about the discovery in the sea near Marseille aircraft "Lightning", which went to its last flight the famous writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
