G.L.
Ted & Marvin, thanks for your comments. When I went to the cemetery and found the ledger entry, they couldn�´t help me find the code reference to the grave site. When I went there again, I met the previous manager who explained that the pauper�´s graves were (and are) set out in rows, without a headstone to each grave. It was only these graves that had to be excavated to make a large trench for the many dead collected from the surrounding forest. The Wehrmacht had retreated from the East to re-group to the south of Berlin and there must have been heavy losses in the area. Patrick
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