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What Happened to Dead Bodies After Big Battles Throughout History? (2019x32)

Udgivelsesdato: Jan 31, 2019

Join us in War Thunder for free using this link and g→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: The Ridiculous Way British Sailors Were Ordered to Stop German U-boats During WWI https://youtu.be/rUdzCHWvti8 In this video: Given we know that even Neanderthals would bury their dead (even including objects with the bodies) and various human hunter-gatherer groups likewise used to bury or cremate people at specifics sites that functioned as sort of pilgrimage locations for these nomads, it should come as no surprise that since the dawn of known warfare soldiers have pondered the question of what to do with the bodies of their fallen comrades and enemies. So what did various groups actually do throughout history? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/01/happened-dead-bodies-big-battle/ Sources: https://www.med-dept.com/articles/quartermaster-graves-registration-service/ http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/bones-of-world-war-soldiers-still-being-excavated-across-europe-a-1029530.html http://www.remembrancetrails-northernfrance.com/history/great-war-remembrance/the-history-of-military-graves-from-ancient-times-to-the-19th-century.html http://www.scottmanning.com/content/spartan-burial-practices/ http://shannonselin.com/2016/07/napoleonic-battlefield-cleanup/ http://www.historyextra.com/qa/soil-fertiliser http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/burying-the-dead-in-wwii-the-quartermaster-graves-registration-service/ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15740773.2017.1324675 https://gettysburgcompiler.org/2012/08/02/burying-the-dead-by-allie-ward-54463/ https://www.historynet.com/grave-task-men-buried-wartime-dead.htm https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/magazine/2016/11-12/sparta-mil