The remains of 34 suspected Jewish slave laborers from the Nazi era were reburied on Thursday after being found in a mass grave at an airport in the southern German city of Stuttgart, the German press said.The bodies were buried in the cemetery at the US airbase in Filderstadt in a ceremony marked by anger at the recent revisionist outbursts by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.The mass grave was found in September by construction workers digging in a section of the Stuttgart airport now used by the US army.
Normally there would have been DNA tests to determine the identities of these victims for possible prosecution. However Ulrich Goll, justice minister for the state of Baden-Württemberg declared, that he would allow them to buried quickly in adherence with Jewish law due to the extraordinary legal, ethnic, and historic background.
Normally there would have been DNA tests to determine the identities of these victims for possible prosecution. However Ulrich Goll, justice minister for the state of Baden-Württemberg declared, that he would allow them to buried quickly in adherence with Jewish law due to the extraordinary legal, ethnic, and historic background.
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