Slovenia digs up proof of World War 2 slaughter
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"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
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Spurred by technological strides like DNA matching, some families hope to find the remains of World War II soldiers.
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Â· Remains are believed to be those of tsar's children Â· Discovery in clearing is linked to 1918 shootings
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New papers cast doubt on Vatican claims about when it learned of the atrocities at Auschwitz.
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RUDNICA, Serbia  - Serbia started an investigation on Tuesday into a mass grave believed to contain up to 500 Albanian victims of the Kosovo war, a reminder of why the United Nations is considering independence for the province.
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The skeletal remains of at least 51 people &#151; many of them children &#151; have been unearthed, and authorities suspect some were killed by the Nazis because they were disabled and considered worthless by the regime.
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A Holocaust survivor discovers how a new internet database is helping to record the names of death camp victims.
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MIAMI - The US government has agreed to settle with Holocaust survivors who claim that Army officers during World War II plundered a trainload of family treasures that had been seized by the Nazis.
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A probe into the mysterious shooting of two soldiers has revealed the existence beneath the Serbian capital of a secret communist-era network of tunnels and bunkers believed to have served recently as hideouts ...
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Serbia's war crimes prosecutor said Monday his office is investigating a mass grave containing up to 750 bodies as part of an inquiry into killings of civilians in eastern Bosnia at the start of the 1992-95 war.
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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."
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Forensic experts have unearthed 40 bodies from a newly discovered mass grave in eastern Bosnia believed to contain victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst post-World War II atrocity, an official ...
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Investigators on Saturday examined the remains of two women killed in simultaneous plane crashes that claimed 90 lives, as the Russian press concluded the pair were the perpetrators of the latest suicide attack by female Chechen extremists.
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An amateur Italian historian has found the preserved bodies of three Austro-Hungarian soldiers in an Alpine glacier, 86 years after they were killed in World War One.
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The mysterious deaths of two young Serbian sentries at an army barracks in Belgrade have led to accusations that General Ratko Mladic, the indicted war criminal known as the "Butcher of Bosnia", is being hidden ...
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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.
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Polish officials say that legal documents compiled in a new book bolster their ownership claim of drawings by Renaissance master Albrecht Durer that were looted by the Nazis during World War II.