Stalingrad: digging near Gorodisсhe & Gumrak

[jamesklein321]

Hey Andre!!
How many poeple do you think dig in "Stalingrad"? How many do you talk with that do what you do? The papers and the recordings are
unbelievable!!! I am waiting for you to dig up a whole STUG or PANZER iv before long...HA!
Paul

[Sebastien]

Hey Andre!!
How many poeple do you think dig in "Stalingrad"? How many do you talk with that do what you do? The papers and the recordings are
unbelievable!!! I am waiting for you to dig up a whole STUG or PANZER iv before long...HA!
Paul

Hi Paul, my friend!!!

I'm waiting for you ... exactly we will dig artifacts

Many people are digging here ... personally I know more than 20 diggers ...

[paulus]

andrey dont you call me for dug up ? i found the luger need a walther lol

[Sebastien]

Last weekend, I was looking for a place where there were dead bodies of German soldiers ... Be****vka a settlement, south of Volgograd...

After the battle of Stalingrad, German soldiers were prisoners of war in a POW camp in the village Be****vka in the barracks of Stalingrad thermal condensing power...

This famous camp number 108, there were about 35,000 German and Romanian soldiers ... prisoners

By March 1943 many soldiers died of wounds and dysentery, about 15,000 soldiers ... were stored next to the camp ...I found this place



Now there is sand quarry



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[Sebastien]

Alas, good luck passing me ...I found absolutely nothing ... nothing from the a German soldier uniform ... not buttons, not dog tag, and etc...




Only the echo of the Civil War ... cartridges D.M. 1917





that all

[Wagriff]

Not a Single Thing from all those literal mountains of dead stored there?? Wow... It must have been long since cleaned up with a fine toothed comb.

[me109g4]

Yeah, you would think SOMETHING would be found,, unless maybe bulldozed over and all of it is buried deep in the ground.

[sebfrench76]

Thank you for your continious work!You really make our days Sebastian The Great !
History has a sens because of you.
Merci beaucoup Monsieur!

[Scout]

Theory: German soldiers most likely discarded and destroyed much equipment and personal belongings just prior to going into captivity.
They knew they would be frisked and the above confiscated, so not wanting it to fall into the hands of their captors even deeply personal property was destroyed or discarded (rings, medals, photoes etc).
Then going into captivity they had some items confiscated.
When the prisoners died because of the conditions mentioned, their bodies would most likely have been subjected to further searches - either by fellow prisoners needing boots or uniform items or by the Russians.
I suppose, thats is why there is not much to be found.
As mentioned, just a theory.
Very interesting pics, Sebastian. As always.
Thank you for sharing these grim pics.
Food for thought.

[tokashikibob]

Great pictures and letting us revisit this part of WW2 History!
Semper Fi,
Bob