Archival research indicates that those who were killed were most likely members of the Polish resistance movement.
While looking for evidence of an infamous"massacre," archaeologists discovered a mass World War II grave in a once Nazi-occupied area of Poland. The grave contained the remains of approximately 500 people, as well as bullets, wedding rings and other relics lost to time.. According to the study, archaeologists were excavating an area in northern Poland known as Death Valley, where an estimated 30,000 to 35,000 Polish citizens were executed by Nazis in October and November of 1939.
But when the area was exhumed in 1945, only 168 bodies were found. Many people still believed that there were countless more bodies to be discovered. "It was commonly known that not all mass graves from 1939 were found and exhumed, and the grave of those killed in 1945 was not exhumed either," Dr. Dawid Kobiałka, lead study author from the Polish Academy of Sciences, saidScientists revealed in Wednesday's study that they'd found the mass grave, proving that the massacre took place.
"Despite the Nazis' efforts to hide their crimes, material evidence of the killings, preserved to the present day and discovered in 2020, bears witness to the massacre and tells the story 75 years later," the authors said in their study.
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