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My mother told me of twon unarmed Wehrmacht soldiers captured by Soviet soldiers in her home village of Libusza, near Biecz and Gorlice, in southern Poland, in January 1945. They took refuge in the village church steeple, but were discovered anyway by soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Front. They were taken unarmed, beltless, helmetless, & without their field caps to the village mayor (soltys) who was forced to dig a grave in the frozen ground on the hill in a field near the Bania familiy home. They were shot mercilessly and cast into the grave and buried. It was said that for the next 30 years the grain sown over their grave grew considerably higher, as if to mark the spot. It's sad because, more than likely, they were hapless conscripts who would have preferred being home with their families rather than fighting a war for a lunatic like Hitler and his henchmen. They could have had wives and children. Most certainly, their parents and siblings never learned what happened to them.