Holocaust victims discovered at US Army post in Germany

German police find 34 corpses at Stuttgart Army Airfield.

Two sets of remains were discovered Monday while workers dug as part of a drainage project. The workers informed U.S. military police, who then informed local police, according to German investigators.

Local police uncovered three more remains Monday, and further digging Tuesday unearthed several shallow graves located next to each other and containing another 29 sets of skeletal remains, police said.

“The remains are suspected to be remains of Jewish inmates from the concentration camp,” Bernhard Haeussler, of the Stuttgart prosecutor’s office, said through an interpreter.

The airfield is used by the U.S. military for transporting troops, cargo and VIPs. The Stuttgart military community mail depository is also located there, as is a German police helicopter unit. It is adjacent to the Stuttgart international airport south of the city.