Helmets in Stalingrad

[Luis22]

I went to Stalingrad over the summer. It being July, I didn't expect there to be snow as there was during the battle but I wasn't ready for the record breaking heat. Apparently it was the hottest and driest summer in recorded history. 45 c. was normal. (113 fahrenheit)

Here are some pics with captions.

Fantastic relic helmet!! Well done!!

[rick1]

Great thread! Thanks for uncovering our human history to be saved!...much to the chagrin of some members on here.

[Hummel]

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[skalphunter]

Hi,
i also think it is interesting to dig in that area. Only briefly looking at the pics i saw quite a bunch of dogtags you have been recovering. Are you reporting those data per example to the red cross or similar organisations ?? I don´t want to offend anybody but there are many many soldiers still missed in action and nobody never knew about their whereabouts.Those finds could shet some light in what happend to some individuals. My uncle per example was missed in action in Stalingrad. It was always hard to the family not to know what happened and where he met his faith. I don´t know if you sell this stuff like the guys on the fleamarkets there but thinking it would be a human act at least to copy those data on the tags and get them to those Organisations .
Cheers from Germany
skalp

[chrisutter]

The Volksbund Deutscher Kriegsgräberführsorge (VBDK) is
working very hard, with voluntaries, to search, find and identify
German soldiers on hand of the ID tags.

They identify in this manner several thousend missed soldiers per year.

(around 1 million German soldiers are still missed todays).

Once they do, they can communicate to the relatives and familly what they found about their members who where missed for close to 70 years.
They excavate then the remains in order to burry them in a military cimetary.

When you dig up an ID tags without sending the datas to the VBDK,
the datas are lost forever and this is a pitty for all their work, for the families as well as for the history of this soldiers, no matter which flag they fight for.

Dear friends from Volgograd and other places, please remember this !

Except this consideration, you do a interesting search.
Chris

[chrisutter]

I'm indeed fully in tune with the considerations of skalphunter

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[M98CZ]

Great topic thanks for it!!!

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