Nazis or innocent Sudeten locals? Czech DNA tests on WWII-era corpses should provide answer

Czech police have DNA tests results from mass grave near Jihlava and samples from the supposed German victims’ descendents

Society
Tom Jones | 01.12.2011
The crosses at the site of the mass grave near Dobronín serve also as symbols of differing interpretations of events in May 1945

The discovery of human remains in a mass grave near the village of Dobronín in western Moravia in August 2010 led to the launch of a historical criminal investigation and sparked an emotional and divisive national debate about reprisals against Sudeten Germans at the end of World War II in then-Czechoslovakia. Police now have the results of DNA tests of the remains of the thirteen males between the age of 30 and 60 — allegedly the victims of a violent death — and samples from their potential descendents.

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