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Dulag 191 in Russia being excavated

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    Another horrific find.
    "Harrowing video footage shows excavators unearthing skulls and body parts in an area occupied by Hitler's forces during the Second World War.
    'The estimated death toll is about 500 people,' said Mikhail Segodin, head of the Don search volunteer squad. 'The main contingent of the camp was made up of women and children'
    Archives suggest that overall 8,500 people perished at Dulag-191, a German transit camp set up in Russian territory.
    The search for human remains at the site is concentrating on 15 pits, each mass graves that contain between 30 and 100 remains in the vicinity of Lushnikovo village, Ostrogozhsky district.
    A Soviet intelligence report from the Office of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs for Voronezh region and dated September 2 1942 stated that a concentration camp for women and children was located in the area.
    The reported said the camp was 'at a brick factory in the suburban village of Lushnikovka'.
    The camp was described as being 'in the open air, fenced with four rows of barbed wire' and it was 'guarded by Magyars' [Hungarians].
    The report added: 'Prisoners are not fed, but children are allowed to gather alms, parcels are also allowed.
    'There are many ill people there, medical aid is not provided. There is a high mortality rate.'
    Historian Viktor Strelkin spoke to eyewitnesses and prisoners who are still alive, who were able to direct him to the site of the mass grave...
    ...The concentration camp system Dulag-191 was created in the Voronezh region in 1942.
    Inmates from Dulag-191 were forced to construct a railway for the Nazis known as the Berlinka line, built to supply German forces seeking to take Stalingrad.
    The burial site was found with the help of unclassified secret service documents and aerial photographs made by a German pilot in 1942."
    www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9629945/Gruesome-discovery-500-bodies-mass-grave-former-Nazi-concentration-camp.html
     
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