Nazi-era mass grave discovered in German cemetery
606140
MENDEN-BARGE, Germany  - German authorities said on Thursday that they had unearthed the remains of 51 people, most of them children, in what may be a mass grave for murdered victims of Hitler's euthanasia program.
576717
KIEV, Ukraine -- Pipeline diggers unearthed a mass grave believed to contain thousands of Jews killed in Ukraine during World War II, a Jewish community spokesman said Tuesday, a grim finding in a nation that one Holocaust expert described as "an enormous killing field."
629386
Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis, a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary ...
523634
One of the thousands of victims of the Nazi regime's program to kill mentally ill people was a relative of Adolf Hitler, two historians said Tuesday.
63226
ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Japanese and U.S. officials have found four mass graves that they believe hold the remains of 500 World War II soldiers, nearly 65 years after a bloody battle on the remote Alaskan island of Attu.
114799
Investigators have unearthed a mass grave in northern Iraq containing hundreds of bodies of women and children believed killed in the 1980s.
19915
The passport used by  Holocaust organiser Adolf Eichmann to enter Argentina is unearthed in court records.
586129
Spurred by technological strides like DNA matching, some families hope to find the remains of World War II soldiers.
295831
Investigators have begun unearthing a mass grave near this northern Iraqi village, uncovering more than 100 bodies and seeking evidence to use in a future trial of Saddam Hussein.
421087
Iraqi security forces found a mass grave containing about 50 bodies, some badly decomposed and others killed more recently, during a hunt on Tuesday for al Qaeda militants north of Baghdad, police said.
126642
A US-led team of investigators working in northern Iraq has discovered a mass grave containing hundreds of bodies, including that of an infant with a gunshot to the back of the head.
507641
Authorities discovered part of a human skeleton in a vacant lot believed for years to be a graveyard for people ordered killed by the late mob boss John Gotti and other gangsters.
199607
Jewish community leaders in southern Ukraine asked Thursday for control over the land where a mass grave believed to contain thousands of Holocaust victims was found.
723031
BYKOVNYA, Ukraine  - Ukraine on Saturday reburied some 2,000 people killed by the Soviet secret police over several years up to the Second World War and left in mass graves at a site near the capital.
90514
"The killings that took place here have no comparison in Europe. In two months after the war, more people were killed here than in the four years of war"  After digging for two hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a shoe confirmed this was a secret mass grave from World War Two. via Scotsman.com News
389900
A secret Cold War-era bunker has been unearthed under German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's offices.
527670
Forensic experts said on Monday they had found the remains of about 60 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims in a mass grave in eastern Bosnia.