Nazi-era mass grave unearthed in Stuttgart

A mass grave dating from World War II and believed to contain the remains of Nazi-era forced workers has been uncovered at an airport in the southern German city of Stuttgart, investigators said on Wednesday.

The skeletal remains of an undetermined number of people were found Monday during work on the airfield next to Stuttgart s airport, said Ulrich Heffner, a spokesman for police in the southwestern city.

Preliminary examination of the remains indicated that they were of the right age to be the bodies of Jews used as forced laborers in the area, Heffner said in a statement.

According to Heffner, Jewish inmates from a camp adjacent to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp were used as slave laborers at the airbase between November 1944 and February 1945, and more than 100 died of hunger and typhus during that period; nineteen were cremated at the time, and another 66 corpses were found in October 1945, shortly after the war ended.

Story covered in the jerusalem post and EJP.

A detail no foreign newspaper mentions: Short time after war, a german soldier (who worked at the airport) told local authorities about the grave, but nobody was interested at all.