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The Sunday Read: ‘Unburying the Remains of the Third Reich’

The Sunday Read: ‘Unburying the Remains of the Third Reich’

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When Daniel and Victoria Van Beuningen first toured their future
home, a quiet villa in the Polish city of Wroclaw, it had been
abandoned for years, its windows sealed up with bricks. But
something about its overgrown garden spoke to them. They could
imagine raising chickens there, planting tomatoes and cucumbers.
They could make something beautiful out of it, they thought — a
place where their children could run and play.

They moved in knowing very little about what happened at the
villa before World War II, when Wroclaw, formerly Breslau, was
still part of Germany.

The couple wanted to know more, and their inquiries eventually
led to the Meinecke family in Heidelberg, Germany, elderly
siblings who said they were born in the home. Over a long
afternoon, they showed the couple pictures of the place from
happier times before the war, but they also offered the Van
Beuningens a surprising warning: The couple might find the
remains of some German soldiers buried in the garden.

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