Hello all,
I'm living in Belgium, but we have a second house in Croatia (former Yougoslavia, home of Tito and his partizans).
Last Eastern holiday, I took my Croatian neighbour for searching after Roman relics (we are on 10 km of a Roman settlement).
After we were back (in which we didn't find anything, but we only searched one field), he told me that in the little woods next to my house a German soldier was buried.
It seems that the region our house is in, was heavily infested with partizans.
At the end of the war, they ambushed a lonely German soldier and he got slaughtered by a female partizan.
They took his gear and buried him in the small woods.
After the war, some locals took care of his grave, but after they died, nobody took care of it anymore and nature overtook the burial place.
At the end of this month, we are going back to our house and with the help of the old father of my neighbour and with some detectors, i hope to localise his grave (in the understanding that he was buried not to deep and with some metal on him).
I would then contact the local authorities so that they hopefully can identity him and rebury him next to his comrades.
If I can not find him, I will clean the supposed buriel place, plant some flowers and take care of his grave.
Lest we forget.
Thanks for reading my story and I will keep you all updated how it goes.
Best,
Nico
I'm living in Belgium, but we have a second house in Croatia (former Yougoslavia, home of Tito and his partizans).
Last Eastern holiday, I took my Croatian neighbour for searching after Roman relics (we are on 10 km of a Roman settlement).
After we were back (in which we didn't find anything, but we only searched one field), he told me that in the little woods next to my house a German soldier was buried.
It seems that the region our house is in, was heavily infested with partizans.
At the end of the war, they ambushed a lonely German soldier and he got slaughtered by a female partizan.
They took his gear and buried him in the small woods.
After the war, some locals took care of his grave, but after they died, nobody took care of it anymore and nature overtook the burial place.
At the end of this month, we are going back to our house and with the help of the old father of my neighbour and with some detectors, i hope to localise his grave (in the understanding that he was buried not to deep and with some metal on him).
I would then contact the local authorities so that they hopefully can identity him and rebury him next to his comrades.
If I can not find him, I will clean the supposed buriel place, plant some flowers and take care of his grave.
Lest we forget.
Thanks for reading my story and I will keep you all updated how it goes.
Best,
Nico
Please do keep us updated with your efforts.
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