Acta musealia 2017/1-2:116-133 | https://doi.org/10.62317/amu.2017.007

Archaeology of the Second World War Battlefield Sites in the White Carpathian Mountains An Example Excavation of the Grave of a German Soldier Killed near the Village of Horní Němčí in April 1945

Jaroslav Bartík, Tomáš Chrástek
Slovácké muzeum v Uherském Hradišti, p. o.

In the spring months of the year 1945, the Second World War front moved through the border area of the White Carpathian Mountains. This event can be taken as the beginning of liberation of the South East Moravia from German occupation. Until today, in many places of the White Carpathian Mountains numerous traces of liberation fighting can still be found. Apart from visible terrain relics there are a great number of metallic finds of military nature as well as military equipment, which are known mainly due to the activities of amateur metal detector hunters. Lately, however, we more and more often see excavations by professional archaeologists, this being mainly linked to discoveries of war graves of killed soldiers. These have been archaeologically documented and the raised bodily remains buried with piety. Among these is also the grave of a German soldier, which was archaeologically excavated and documented in the cadastre of the village Horní Němčí in 2016. This article represents one of the first papers dedicated to archaeology of the Second World War battlefield sites in the area of South East Moravia.

Keywords: archaeology of battlefield sites, the Second World War, the White Carpathian Mountains,

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Bartík, J., & Chrástek, T. (2017). Archaeology of the Second World War Battlefield Sites in the White Carpathian Mountains An Example Excavation of the Grave of a German Soldier Killed near the Village of Horní Němčí in April 1945. Acta musealia, 15(1-2), 116-133. doi: 10.62317/amu.2017.007
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