BERLIN (Reuters) – Berlin held a ceremony on Thursday to bury the bone fragments of what scientists believe to be victims of crimes committed in the name of science including in the Nazi era, that were uncovered in recent years.
Fragments of human and animal bones were first found by chance on the campus of Berlin’s Free University in 2014 during construction work. It was suspected that they originated from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, which stood on the site from 1927 to 1945.
The institute was connected not only with colonial crimes due to its ethnological collections but also National Socialist crimes, Free University President Guenter Ziegler said at the ceremony on Thursday at a cemetery in western Berlin.
Scientists carried out excavations in order to find out more about the remains. In total they uncovered around 16,000 heavily fragmented bones.
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