German leaders mark 80th anniversary of WWII's end at berlin memorial
German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier laid a wreath at the Neue Wache, Germany's central memorial to victims of war and tyranny, alongside federal leaders Anke Rehlinger, Julia Klöckner, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Stephan Harbarth in Berlin. (Photo: AP)
Search for Germany’s WWII fallen soldiers continues eight decades later
A worker of the German War Graves Commission works on the exhumation of remains of German WWII soldiers in Ostrołęka, Poland. (Photo: AP)
Recovering Germany’s WWII fallen soldiers from Polish soil
Workers of the German War Graves Commission exhume the remains of German WWII soldiers in Ostrołęka, Poland. (Photo: AP)
Hunt for Germany’s WWII fallen soldiers goes on
The remains of 107 Wehrmacht soldiers were interred in Halbe. German troops performed ceremonial honors while students laid white gerberas, paying tribute to the long-forgotten dead. (Photo: AP)
German youth honors WWII fallen soldiers in burial ceremony
High school students from across the region participated in the ceremony, small coffins with the remains of fallen German soldiers of WWII are placed in the mass grave during a funeral service at a memorial site for fallen soldiers in Halbe, Germany. (Photo: AP)
Families still seek closure for Germany’s WWII fallen soldiers
A German soldier carries a small coffin with the remains of fallen German soldiers of WWII to the grave during a funeral service at a memorial site for fallen soldiers in Halbe. (Photo: AP)
Painful process behind Germany’s WWII fallen soldiers
German soldiers carry the small coffins with the remains of fallen German soldiers of WWII to the grave during a funeral service at a memorial site for fallen soldiers in Halbe, Germany. (Photo: AP)
Controversy around commemorating Germany’s WWII fallen soldiers
The work is not without controversy. Critics warn against romanticizing soldiers who fought for a regime responsible for horrific crimes. Yet others emphasize the human dignity owed to the dead in Halbe, Germany. (Photo: AP)
Halbe becomes a final resting place for Germany’s WWII fallen soldiers
German soldiers carry the small coffins with the remains of fallen German soldiers of WWII to the grave during a funeral service at a memorial site for fallen soldiers in Halbe, Germany. (Photo: AP)
Dignified burials for Germany’s WWII fallen soldiers
Germany lost over 5 million soldiers in World War II. As battle lines shifted rapidly, many were buried in unmarked or forgotten graves, especially in places like Halbe, where one of the war’s final, bloodiest battles occurred. (Photo: AP)
Identifying the lost: Memory without closure
A worker of the German War Graves Commission holds a dog tag of a fallen German WWII soldier in his hands during a exhumation of remains of German WWII soldiers in Ostrołęka, Poland. (Photo: AP)
Unmarked graves of Germany's WWII fallen soldiers
Crosses and grave stones stand on a war cemetery for more than 26.000 fallen German WWII soldiers in Stare Czarnowo, near Szczecin, Poland. (Photo: AP)
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