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Mass grave, remains of 8,000 Nazi war victims found in Poland

A symbolic grave in the Bialucki Forest near Ilowo, Poland, on July 13, 2022, the site of a mass grave of some 8,000 victims of German Nazis during World War II [Janek Skarzynski/AFP]

A mass grave containing human ashes equivalent to 8,000 people has been discovered near a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, the country’s Institute of National Remembrance said.

The institute, which investigates crimes committed during the Nazi occupation of Poland and the communist era, said on Wednesday that the remains were unearthed near the Soldau concentration camp, now known as Dzialdowo, north of Warsaw.

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