75 YEARS AFTER WWII, AN EXCAVATION TECHNICIAN EXHUME THE REMAINS OF A SOVIET SOLDIER DURING A SEARCH FOR FALLEN SOLDIERS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF KLESSING.

75 YEARS AFTER WWII, AN EXCAVATION TECHNICIAN EXHUME THE REMAINS OF A SOVIET SOLDIER DURING A SEARCH FOR FALLEN SOLDIERS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF KLESSING.

They strive to give the dead a proper burial, and wherever possible identify the remains to provide closure for families.

In this Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019 photo, Laura Tradii, left, Social Anthropologist at the University of Cambridge and Werner Schulz, right, an excavation technician exhume the remains of a Soviet soldier during a search for fallen WWII soldiers near the village of Klessin, in Germany.

 In eastern Germany, today's verdant pastures were killing fields 75 years ago as the Soviet Red Army pushed toward the Nazi capital in the final weeks of World War Two.

 Volunteers from across Europe comb across the area looking for the remains of the thousands of missing soldiers, working from old maps and aerial photos to identify the trenches, foxholes and strongpoints where they could be buried. 

They strive to give the dead a proper burial, and wherever possible identify the remains to provide closure for families. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Switzerland and the Netherlands.

“We couldn’t, and also don’t, want to look for soldiers from a specific nation,” Laue said. “That’s the interesting thing when one finds one of the dead; one never even knows at the beginning if it’s a German or a Soviet.”

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