A first exhumation campaign was carried out in the summer of 2023 to find the remains of Wehrmacht soldiers killed by resistance fighters. She hadn’t given anything. But new elements prompted the relaunch of the search on Monday, reports France Bleu Limousin.
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New research began on Monday October 7 in Meymac (Corrèze), in the Encaux woods, to find the remains of 35 German soldiers killed in June 1944 by the Haute-Corrèze maquis, reports France Bleu Limousin. This prospecting work is scheduled to last three days, until Thursday.
A first exhumation campaign, without result, was carried out in the summer of 2023 to find the remains of Wehrmacht soldiers killed by resistance fighters. Research which had notably been carried out on the instructions of the former resistance fighter Edmond Réveil. In the fall of 2023, using a drone and Lidar technology to study the topography of the area, experts were unable to exhume the two pits, but revealed the existence of an old path, used in month of June 1944.
Information cross-checked by two witnesses: a retiree aged around ten at the end of the 1960s, who attended the first exhumation of 11 bodies of German soldiers at that time, and a former soldier who saw the pits still open. Elements which pushed the German authorities to relaunch prospecting.
“This is the last chance we have to find this grave”underlines Marine Meucci-Duly, archaeo-anthropologist for the National Veterans Office. Nearly ten people are mobilized. These large-scale operations, like those carried out in the summer of 2023, are notably financed by the organization responsible for the remains of German soldiers abroad, the VDK. For the mayor of Meymac, it is important to “to say that we have done everything to find these people who are buried somewhere around there, and return them to their families.”