II Pasaulinio karo vokiečių palaidojimai Rokoniuose

LT2016 m. Rokonių kaime (Radviliškio r., Šeduvos sen.) vykdyti II Pasaulinio karo vokiečių karių ekshumavimo darbai. Kapavietė yra į PV nuo kaimo, ariamame lauke. Informacijos apie kapavietę gauta iš Lietuvos Šaulių sąjungos Šiaulių generolo P. Plechavičiaus rinktinės III kuopos šaulio Dainiaus Buivydo. Apie karių palaidojimus jam papasakojo vietiniai gyventojai. Anot jų, kaimo laukuose turėjo būti II Pasaulinio karo latvių SS legionierių kapai. Palaikai bus perlaidoti Kauno Aukštųjų Šančių karių kapinėse. Geriau išlikę ir ŠAM istorinių eksponatų atrankos kriterijus atitikę radiniai perduoti šiam muziejui. Muziejaus nepriimti daiktai ir kitos prastai išlikusios aprangos bei ekipuotės liekanos bus perlaidotos kartu su palaikais. Karių identifikavimui ir simbolinės reikšmės kario palikuonims galintys turėti radiniai-žetonai ir žiedai-bus perduoti VDK. [...] [p. 489, 491].

ENIn 2016, the discovered remains of Second World War german soldiers were exhumed in Rokoniai village (Radviliškis district). The burial ground was in arable land and a marker stone for the dead had been placed in its vicinity. A total of roughly 14 m2 was excavated. The remains of 26 soldiers were exhumed. They had been interred chaotically: prone, supine, and in various directions at a depth of about 0.7–1 m in a common pit that was over 4 m long and about 2 m wide. The burial site had been disturbed during melioration work. Only eight of the 26 skeletons had not been disturbed. Just the upper or lower part of the skeleton mostly survived for the rest of the remains. Some of the skeletons were in poor shape, the bones having softened or rotted. As a consequence, their ages: from 20 to 45, was determined for only seven individuals. The remains of uniforms and gear as well as a few personal items were discovered near the individuals. Only two of the 13 discovered identification tags had been broken in half in accordance with German burial procedures. The chaotic burial and the intact, unbroken tags confirm the information that the German soldiers had been buried by the local inhabitants rather than by their own comrades. The remains of explosives and a Soviet military badge show that the burial could have been supervised by Red Army soldiers who may have also participated in it. From the inscriptions on the tags, it is possible to judge that the soldiers or at least some of them had belonged to an engineering battalion. The remains will be reburied in Aukštieji Šančiai military cemetery in Kaunas.