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During a ceremony at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer (Calvados), American soldier Nathan Baskind, who fell on June 23, 1944 during the Battle of Normandy, was buried “next to his brothers in arms” . His body had been in a German military grave in the English Channel since 1944.
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After eighty years buried in a German military grave, Lieutenant Nathan B. Baskind, an American soldier who died on June 23, 1944, now rests alongside his brothers in arms at the Colleville American cemetery. | WEST FRANCE
He had been lying in a German military mass grave for eighty years. Lieutenant Nathan B. Baskind, an American soldier, Jewish, who died on June 23, 1944, has now joined “his nation and his people”. He was buried this Sunday, June 23, 2024 alongside his brothers in arms, in the American cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer, after a long and moving ceremony.
“After a very long absence, we brought him home. He was brought back to the heart of his country, the United States of America. At the heart too,…
