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The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole in Berlin

Five skeletons found under Wolf’s Lair home of Hermann Göring in Poland

Hermann Göring's derelict house in Wolf's Lair, surrounded by overgrown bushes and trees
Hermann Göring's house in Wolf's Lair, which is now in present-day Poland. Photograph: Panther Media GmbH/Alamy

Amateur archaeologists have unearthed five human skeletons missing their hands and feet under the former home of the Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring at Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair military headquarters in present-day Poland.

The remains, believed to be that of a family, were discovered as part of a dig at the site near the north-eastern town of Kętrzyn, where Nazi leaders spent large stretches of the second world war.

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