Re: Anything Similar to Graves Registration for Japan and Germany?

csmdave a écrit :
crw59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I assume with the Allies being the victors, we were able to recover
and record our dead. Were any Axis remains ever returned to Germany
and/or Japan? What kind of accounting was done?
I don't know about Japanese but the recording of German dead in Normandy
was rather haphazard. In the German cemetery at La Cambe in Normandy there are 21000 graves. 13000 were unknown.
There are several reasons for this. The german soldiers only had one dog tag or none, where as American soldiers had two. During the battle of normandy the germans were retreating slowly and so were often buried by the allies. They didn't have the same incentive to find out who the soldier was.
But even today, 60 years after, they still manage to put a name on an unknown soldier. Just two years ago a young German was going through the papers of his grandmother who had just died. He found a letter from his grandfather that he had written just before being killed in Normandy. His grand father was one of the unknown soldiers. With the post code of the post office in Normandy they could correlate what they knew about soldiers found in that area and managed to place him. So now next to an unknown plaque there is a small metal tag with his name on waiting for the plaque to be remade with his name.

Colin McGarry
http://normandy-tour-guide.cpmac.com

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