Volksbund

…But the Volksbund says it's not here to commemorate or honor any of the people who are buried at their cemeteries. They're simply here to remember the deadly toll of war. The Volksblum's work has been controversial since the beginning, but it's in crosshairs today that it wouldn't have been in if we were talking about it just a few decades ago.…

…These numbers really shocked me. And for this week's Sunday Read, I wanted to understand what they mean right now. so I followed the Volksbund out to one of their dig sites in Hungary last year. We drove to a town south of Budapest, near the border of Serbia, where this mass grave was discovered containing close to a thousand bodies of German and Hungarian…

…They're called the Volksbund, and for more than a century, they've been trying to find the bones of every German who died during the World Wars, even the Nazis, so they can give them a proper burial. When I first heard about its mission, it raised so many questions for me, like, what does it mean to go looking for the bones of war criminals? What kind of con…