September 21, 2005
A mass grave with the remains of slave laborers has been discovered on a building site next to a US Army airfield near the German city of Stuttgart. The 30 persons were, according to the state prosecutor's office, in all likelihood Jewish slave laborers in an outpost of the Nazi concentration camp Struthof in Alsace. The victims, whose skeletons were now found at excavation works near Stuttgart Airport, probably starved to death. Between November 1944 and February 1945, an estimated 110 people died in this outpost alone. After the war, the US army had discovered a mass grave in a forest, but until now there was no hint that another grave existed. The authorities have started criminal investigations, but called it difficult that the victims could be identified.
