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om their online website including the use of neo nazi language during the unearthing of human remains this is frankly very disappointing behaviour national geographic is a large organisation one where the magazine tv show research foundation and online forms are all independent from each other but retain the national geographic brand the nazi war diggers program is deeply disappointing and infuriating as are the national geographic responses to queries by specialists and non specialists alike the companies involved in the making of this program include the following the national geographic television channel legenda the specialist company used in the latvia based digging production company clearstory and the fox entertainment group the three presenters involved are not trained archaeological excavators or trained field anthropologists in the recording and removal of human remains yet video footage explicitly shows the removal of human skeletal material from a war grave with the use of inappropriate and damaging tools no recording of the context of the remains nor any respect or care taken in identifying the bone elements post immediate removal the principal three presenters of the show kris rodgers stephen taylor and craig gottlieb alongside adrian kostromski are curious choices to front such a show in particular craig gottlieb has a record for selling ww2 artefacts for profit and has stated in online websites that he has no problems getting artefacts past customs or finding artefacts to sell this raises all sorts of ethical problems and probable clashes of interest during his involvement with nazi war diggers indeed gottlieb had been quoted as saying i feel that by selling things that are nazi related and for lots of money i m preserving a part of history that museums don t want to bother with a quote which was quickly retracted by the national geographic channel on their website the company behind the so called excavation of human remains in ww2 contexts in latvia legenda have numerous youtube videos up of their work please be aware this is strictly not how trained archaeologists or anthropologists excavate and record human remains especially those that likely still have living relatives as can be evidence in the videos no care or attention is paid to the remains uncovered no ethics are abided by and no respect is paid to the fallen that have been uncovered it is some of the most upsetting scenes of desecration of war graves that i have seen there must have been an awful lot of contextual information lost purely because of the approach used by legenda bear in mind that individuals from ww2 graves can often still be identified and returned to places of rest this will not be the case when desecration and destruction of evidence happens on a scale that is the outcome of the approach legenda use 1 for national geographic to actively work with such companies and individuals is a shock it disastrously promotes the profane practice of war grave robbing it is extremely disappointing and disturbing there are no other words to describe it personally i having trouble articulating my thoughts on this subject because i am so surprised and disheartened that such a program could be made for entertainment purposes furthermore it gives archaeology bioarchaeology and human osteology a bad name when in fact these fields of study and inquiry are vital to understanding the people the cultures and the landscapes of the past quite proactively it seems that this is not the case with the nazi war diggers show i am also worried that this show will produce a monochrome view of the eastern front i am deeply worried that the individuals exhumed during the production of the show may be misidentified or cast aside i for one await evidence from national geographic on the osteological reports and deposition of the skeletal remains excavated excavation generally implies recording of the archaeological context something that this show lacks during the course of the show the website for the program linked above states that misinformation has already been spread about the show and that the show will explicitly state the difference in the work that it supposedly conducts and the work of black digging i e grave robbing for the selling of artefacts yet the damage has surely already been done by the way in which national geographic has conducted the work already by associating with known sellers of ww2 relics for profit and by using companies that have a documented and explicit history of desecrating war graves the national geographic channel has itself already condemned its own show from the start for me there is no argument nazi war diggers is an abhorrent show both morally and ethically a part of me cannot help but wonder what news the national geographic channel is holding back before the airing of nazi war diggers will the show include the respectful identifying or re burial of the individuals who have been dug up on the show are the artefacts associated with ww2 contexts preserved documented and stored in museums so far the news from the channel the production company and the companies associated with the show do not provide hope in the methods that they been shown to have used i want to highlight something else though something positive from an article that appeared in the bbc online magazine a few months ago something that provides a different perspective on excavating and exhuming the individuals who died on the eastern front in ww2 in a recent article ash 2014 highlighted the work of the volunteers throughout the russian federation that have dedicated their time and efforts to locating and excavating the missing soldiers of the red army on the eastern front documenting one such group exploration which is one of a suspected 600 groups or so the article details the work that they do in excavating identifying and re burying the soviet war dead of ww2 in contrast to the above show by the national geographic channel the exploration group have had some success in carefully excavating recording and identifying the individuals that they have uncovered where they fell during the german offensive code named operation barbarossa in the forests around st petersburg formerly known as leningrad intriguingly there is evidence of the cover up of the graves in this area during the 1950s and 1960s by the communist regime by planting trees to help cover the physical remains of battle and thus prohibit any chance discovery the priority was instead to re build a shattered country the largely independent volunteer groups described in the bbc article receive no initial help in recovering the bodies of the fallen but do seem to be able to help fund an honourable reburial once documenting recording and removal of the bodies have taken place although it is unclear to me if the russian federation provides funding or materials for this importantly it is by giving back the unknown soldiers their identifies if they can be identified by their id tags or personal belongings that the volunteer groups are able to bring closure to some families today by helping to return and re unite long lost loved individuals in a quick last mention i recently received a copy of clea koff s book the bone woman in the post a book detailing the forensic anthropologist s work with the united nations in helping to exhume and identify modern victims of genocide the book has a particular focus on her work in rwanda bosnia kosovo and croatia detailing the information that her team helped to collect and recover and how it was used in trials against the people who helped order or carry out the killings in these countries in the 1990s it was on reading osteoadventures post on the national geographic debacle that i came across koff s book and i highly recommend giving it a read there are many many people both individuals and organisations worldwide that conduct thorough investigations into human rights violations such as recovering evidence and human remains from genocide contexts or discovering and investigating clandestine graves that deserve our support and acknowledgement the national geographic channel s nazi war diggers program is not among these the damage that the show has already caused in part evidenced above should be protested against human remains deserve better treatment update 01 04 14 according to the new york times via dr sam hardy the national geographic channel has pulled the nazi war diggers program indefinitely notes 1 once again dr sam hardy has updated his excellent blog with some salient remarks regarding legenda and their techniques in particular he highlights the fact that the people behind the company want to help and that at times they cannot do as much of a professional job as one would hope this does not excuse all of their actions in the videos linked to above but it does explain some to a degree i heartily recommend readers to check dr hardy s blog for regular updates on the situation and for further information further reading dr sam hardy regularly investigates and updates his blog conflict antiquities on this matter and many others sign a change org petition here to stop the airing of the show read the vermillion accord on human remains at the world archaeology congress website bodies and academia has highlighted a range of responses from the archaeology blogging world bibliography applebaum a 2013 iron curtain the crushing of eastern europe london penguin books ash l 2014 digging for their lives russia s volunteer body hunters bbc online magazine merridale c 2013 red fortress the secret heart of russia s history london allen lane tags eastern front nazi war diggers ww2 comments 11 comments categories nazi war diggers anthropology clea koff clearstory eastern front exploration forensic anthropology funerary archaeology germany grave robbing human osteology human rights latvian archaeology mortuary archaeology national geographic channel polish 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