Five human skeletons have been unearthed beneath the former home of Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring.
The bodies appear to be devoid of hands and feet.
Amateur archaeologists have made a discovery beneath the former home of Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring, at Hitler’s military headquarters, the “Wolfschanze” (the wolf’s den), in what is now Poland. It was thought that the ruins of the lair of Adolf Hitler’s lieutenant had been searched from top to bottom. However, a macabre surprise awaited the team, led by Oktavian Bartoszewski, after she became interested in the remains of an old wooden floor. Once the earth was cleared, a fragment of a human skull about 10 centimeters was discovered near water pipes.
“We were completely shocked“, Bartoszewski reported to the German media Spiegel. The researchers immediately notified the police. No evidence of a recent crime was found, so the team was allowed to continue their search. In total, the skeletons of five people were discovered. According to authorities, they are three adults, a teenager and a baby. Even stranger, no traces of clothing were found and all of the corpses were missing their hands and feet.
Questions surrounding a place with a dark past
The missing extremities leave investigators doubtful. It could be that the thinner bones in the hands and feet have dissolved over the decades, unless the limbs were amputated. Bartoszewski suspects the dead were likely dumped after the building was constructed. “Those who laid the pipes should have discovered the human remains“, he explained in the press. It is also possible that the bodies were only buried after the end of the Second World War, so that Adolf Hitler’s most loyal lieutenants could not have known anything about them. them.
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Deliberately built miles from any civilization in the forests of northeastern Poland, the “Wolfschanze” was the headquarters of the Nazi Eastern Front, covering an area of 6.5 square kilometers. The base was one of the largest of its type in Europe, it still holds many forgotten secrets image of these exhumed bodies.The uniqueness of this discovery lies in the fact that they were found in the premises of the most closely guarded complex of the Third Reich“, we can read in the press release from its foundation. The place with a sordid reputation is today a tourist site for history lovers and the recent discovery is likely to revive the interest of potential visitors.
