Pictured above is the skull and helmet of a German soldier who was killed on the Eastern Front, sometime between 1941 and 1945.

I like to post this image annually so I can remind you, (the followers), a little more on the cost of war and the fact that bodies are still being found todsy on the Eastern Front.

Statistics indicate that 4/5 German soldiers on the Eastern Front were killed, and the Soviet number is not much better (infact worse.)

Entire Russian villages lost all of their young men, in fact I believe there is another statistic where 80% or so of all Russian males that were 20 in 1941 were killed. As many of you may know, the Eastern Front was one the most vast and attritional fronts of the war.

It was home to some of History's most famous abd bloody battles like Kursk, Stalingrad, Moscow, Leningrad, Narva, Rzhev, Berlin, etc. So it is no surpise that hundreds and thousands of relics from the war and being dug up every year.

Many times, the remains of a soldier are found. In combat, especially during the later years of the war, there was little time to bury the dead or retrieve their bodies, thus they decayed where they fell.

70 years later, people are finding their skeletal remains and now are giving them a proper burial. Unfortunately many are unable to be identified.

However, some can be and are sent to any surviving family members for a proper burial. Once a year, kids around Leningrad and other cities go out and search for remains or items from the war.

If they find anything, they donate it to a museum or hand it over to the proper authorities.

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