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Germany on Tuesday held a ceremony in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas to mark the millionth German war dead reburied since the fall of the Iron Curtain. The German War Graves Commission, or Volksbund, buried the remains of World War II soldier Max Beyreuther along with 78 other corpses at the Kaunas German War Cemetery. The ceremony was attended by Volksbund Vice President Detlef Fritzsch, German and Lithuanian lawmakers, relatives of the German war dead and current service members. Beyreuther has been identified as the millionth German soldier to be reburied since the Volksbund gained access to…

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