Five skeletons without hands and feetright under the floor of the house where Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's Nazi deputy and head of the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force. The building where some local archaeologists found the mutilated corpses was located in the Tana del Lupo complex, Wolfschanze, the Nazi headquarters on the Eastern Front built in Gierloz, then South Prussia and now Poland, in the forest. It was one of the main headquarters of the German army and government during World War II, and all of the Nazi leadership lived there. This complex was one of the most heavily guarded in the Reich. It occupied an area of 57 hectares, with hundreds of houses and bunkers. The perimeter was protected by 54,000 mines, making it virtually impregnable.
Three of the skeletons belonged to adults (one of them elderly), one to a child of about ten years old and the other to a newborn: they were placed under some pipes, under the floorboards of Hermann Goering's house, without clothes or any kind of accessories. They were arranged close to each other, all facing the same direction.
Archaeologist Okatvian Bartoszewski, a member of the archaeological team of the Latebra Foundation, whose team conducted the excavations, hypothesized that the bodies were buried there after the house had already been built, as he explained to Der Spiegel: “Those who laid the pipes should have discovered human remains.” And again: «The key to solving this mystery would be to determine the date of the burial: whether it dates back to the 1920s, 1940 or 1945. There is a cemetery nearby, but why would a family be buried here rather than there? There was also a mental asylum nearby and one of the skeletons had a deformed jaw and a crooked spine.”
As for the fact that all the bodies had no hands or feet, archaeologists warn that these “delicate” bones may they may have simply decayedalthough the possibility that they were amputated before death is not excluded.
Now Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation to check whether the corpses were victims of Nazi war crimes.
Source: Vanity Fair
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