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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!
How can that be explained? What can we speculate happened there?
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well there has been a massive encirclement battle near Demyansk from the beginning of '42 untill march '43. So a speculation is that the swamp began to defrost, together with a hasty retreat (= no reconaissance) this could have been a fatal accident.
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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!
What is the significance behind that?
Or the reasoning?
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I really can't say. For a forgery attempt it is much too obvious that the 20 was painted over.
However something really smells fishy about this whole thing.
My guess is that the Stug was recovered by graverobbers. This explains why we have neither an exact location nor names of the dead. Selling stuff from fallen soldiers is a massive business, especially in the East. These people plunder the dead and leave the human remains lieing there. Without the tags, which they also steal, an identification of the fallen will be nearly impossible -
if they are found again...
The claim that it was sold for $1000000 also points into this direction, if it was recovered by the authorities, the Stug would belong to the state - and the remains of the dead would be buried.