Exhumation of the executed on the Waalsdorpervlakte and identification of the dead, June 1945, Series shows the exhumation of the executed on the Waalsdorpervlakte in June 1945, so shortly after the end of the war. The series shows the discovery of the corpses, the excavation and the examination by a pathologist. The moving of the corpses and placing them in new coffins has also been depicted. Everything happens in the presence of Dutch soldiers, two German soldiers in uniform. Excavating and lifting the coffins is done by men in plain clothes, probably former NSB members., anonymous

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