1,800 bodies unearthed in WWII mass grave

CONSTRUCTION workers have unearthed a World War II-era mass grave containing what are believed to be the bodies of 1,800 German men, women and children near Poland’s border with Germany, authorities said yesterday.

Poles excavating the site of a planned luxury hotel in Malbork excavated the wartime bomb crater at the foot of the city’s famous 13th century Teutonic Knights fortress in October.

Initial examinations by experts have concluded they are likely the remains of German citizens still classified as “missing” more than 60 years after the end of the war, town official Piotr Szwedowski said. The town was part of Germany at the time.