From the Archives: In a discussion with Reinhard Bernbeck, he delves into the origins and ethics of conducting archaeological investigations of the Nazi period.
One method we use is excavation, actually digging in the ground, but what must follow next is identification, cataloging, and interpretation. When we excavated at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, we knew that next to the concentration camp, there was primarily a forced-labor camp. We were able to add more detail to our understanding of that camp when we discovered barbed wire laid out underground.
When we investigated three neighboring barracks, we looked for tableware that was originally meant for German personnel but somehow got into the camp in low numbers. The French POW barracks and the Soviet one next to it had similar densities of these soup plates, while the second Soviet barracks further down had many fewer such plates. Somehow, the POWs were able to share these things across fences, but there is a distribution inside the site of the Soviet POW section that is quite unequal.
But there is just as much suspicion that these bones came from the German colonies in Africa and the Pacific. And so, what can you do? When you find something like that accidentally, you have to deal with it one way or another. But invasive research, such as DNA analysis into these bones, I think is wrong. Using them for anthropological or physical anthropology research would be repeating the same thing the Nazis did before. This finding is still so new that we do not yet have an answer.
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