Overview

• The remains of 107 Wehrmacht soldiers were reburied in Halbe, Germany, in late April 2025, following decades of recovery efforts by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge.
• A recent exhumation in Ostrołęka, Poland, uncovered skeletons and preserved dog tags, aiding future identification and planned reburial later this year.
• The Volksbund has recovered and reburied over one million soldiers since gaining access to former Eastern Bloc territories in the 1990s, with an estimated two million still unaccounted for.
• The organization emphasizes a humanitarian mission to restore identities and provide dignified burials, while acknowledging the complex legacy of the soldiers' roles in Nazi Germany's military.
• Families of the missing, like Martina Seiger and Wolfgang Bartsch, continue to seek closure, though many burial sites remain obscured by urban development or lost to history.