A deserter, a thief and... Researching a German WWII identification tag into the heart of darkness
After a metal detectorist discovers a World War II era German identification tag belonging to a missing soldier near St Nazaire, France, we are led through the various steps of the investigation that reveal the true and terribly dark fate of the soldier. CrocodileTear Productions https://battlefieldarchaeology.blogsp... Wehrmacht - Festung Saint Nazaire - Festungs Grenadier Regiment 894 - dog tags - U boot base - submarine base - encirclement - siege - German Red Cross - lists of missing - killed in action - prisoner of war - French Foreign Legion - Erkennungsmarken - criminal - theft - desertion - Normandy invasion - 1939 - 1944 - 1945 - Bundesarchiv - Berlin - war crimes - Battle of Brest - Royan - Atlantic wall - Overlord - D-day - DRK - VBL - Vermisstenbildlisten - Rotte Kreutz - war crimes - looting - theft - court martial - execution - witness -deserter - summary justice - Pz.Jäg.Ers.u.Ausb.Abt.13
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