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Indeed.

That "Grandfather's Locker" thread is a slow disclosure of very emotive items stored in a German officer's locker. Stuff he sent to his young bride before he was killed and things his men sent to her after (including a very distraught letter describing how he was forced to shoot one of his own men during a desperate battle)

The son of that officer, as an officer in the WW2 Luftwaffe stationed in the area then tracks down the site where his father was killed . He happens to meet the (now old) daughter of the farmer in whos field the grandfather was killed.
She tells him of a German officers body that was buried in that field and later moved to a nearby cemetary when she was a child

THEN, the grandson (in the US military) years later gathers all the information together and provides it to the German War Graves Commision.

That grave, that was inscibed "an unknown German soldier" now bears
his grandfathers name.
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