Jewish slave labourers’ grave found near US base
Guardian Unlimited
Workers at a US army base in Germany have found a wartime grave thought to contain Jewish slave labourers, police said yesterday.
An unknown number of remains were dug up during work next to Stuttgart airport, southern Germany. Tests indicate the bodies are the right age to be Jews used as forced labourers in the area.
Jewish inmates from a sub-camp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp were used at the airbase between November 1944 and February 1945, a state police spokesman said, adding that more than 100 are known to have died of hunger and typhus.
