"The remains of 120 German soldiers who were killed during fighting to prevent the advance of the Red Army on Berlin at the end of the Second World War have been reburied in a war cemetery. The men died 76 years ago during the fierce Battle of the Seelow Heights, which marked the beginning of the Soviet Union's final push to Berlin after Nazi Germany had been largely defeated. The men who died were hastily buried where they fell, before being discovered and exhumed last year across a 60-mile-wide area. At least a third of the men were identified by their 'dog tags' – the common term given for the identification discs given to all soldiers. The soldiers died during fighting on the River Oder, whilst unsuccessfully trying to stop Russian troops from reaching the German capital. It was where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was holed up in his bunker before he killed himself on April 30, 1945. The men's remains were packed into 92 small coffins, each of which had a small rose put on it, before they were covered over in the ceremony in Lietzen, 40 miles east of Berlin, The Times reported." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9506845/Remains-120-German-soldiers-died-fighting-Red-Army-advanced-Berlin-laid-rest.html