Comment from Lazebrait
Alliance Side Only.Minimum Level Requirement: 28
There is no pre-requisite you just have to go find the Grave.
The co-ords are (17.29).
Once you find the grave you will go to speak with Sirra Von"Indi.
Sirra is located at Darkshire in the Town Hall.
Comment from wowisash
The grave is indeed at . You can see Morbent Fel's House/Forlorn Rowe a little ways up the hill.Comment from amnty
This quest is no longer requires lvl28 to get as i got it at lvl25.Comment from Camaron
The requirement is 25 for this first quest of the chain, but to be able to do the last part you must be 28.Comment from cuffz
I couldn't get it on 27, so I guess it again requires 28 in WotLK.Comment from Tjj19
Me and a lvl 27 Warlock grouped, and he got the quest just fine.Comment from Discohorror
This quest starts a chain including having to kill a level 30 elite which roams the Raven Hill Cemetery. It"s usually fairly easy to find someone else who wants this elite dead, and if not, a little patience and skill (as well as a few extra levels) makes him soloable.Be warned though; this quest-line includes a helluvalot of running from one end of Duskwood to the other. Although you will probably be doing this running while doing the other Duskwood quests, it gets annoying in the end.
Well-known organizations (Memorial, etc.) are searching for dead soldiers. People who determine the identities of warriors in the field sometimes have to conduct serious research. The latter make it possible to at least make sure that the remains belong to a Soviet soldier and not a fascist.
How were the Germans identified?
All Wehrmacht soldiers were required to wear special tin badges. Each such identification mark consisted of two parts. The serviceman's personal number was engraved on them (no last names or first names). When one fascist was killed in battle, another had to bend the token in half and break it.
The first half of the token remained on the body of the killed soldier or officer. He was buried with her. The second fellow soldier of the deceased handed over to the command. It became part of the personal file of the murdered person. On the basis of these numbered pieces of tin, German death statistics were compiled.
Naturally, during hostilities these identification marks were often lost. And the one who took upon himself the responsibility of delivering a comrade’s badge to the commander could be shot down along the way. Then 2 tokens and, accordingly, 2 names disappeared at once. In view of these circumstances, even exemplary German statistics turn out to be very approximate.
How the bodies of Red Army soldiers were identified
Soldiers of the Soviet Union were also required to wear similar identification marks, but they did this extremely rarely. The Soviet army did not have tokens, but ebonite capsule medallions with paper inserts. On the latter, servicemen had to write their data.
Alexey Koretsky, head of the Shield and Sword organization for searching for the dead, said in an interview with Gazeta .Ru that it was considered a bad omen for Red Army soldiers to have a medallion with their name on them. This was equivalent to voluntarily inviting death. Superstition and fear of death led to the fact that the capsules were simply made into mouthpieces, and the inserts were smoked or thrown away.
Because of this tradition, after the war it was necessary to establish the identities of the dead using the remains of uniforms and any personal belongings (watches, penknives, etc.). Sometimes a dying soldier could write a small letter to his wife on a miraculously preserved piece of paper. These are quite common in the graves of unknown soldiers.
Mistakes happen
But it was not only superstition and the absolutely natural desire to hide one’s identity from the enemy that led to errors in identifying bodies. In any war, looting is a common occurrence. Soldiers enduring constant hardship rarely miss an opportunity to profit from something useful from the body of a killed enemy.
Soldiers from both opposing armies often have boots, flasks, knives, razors and other things that once belonged to the enemy. This makes it very difficult to identify bodies. And yet the search and identification of the names of the victims is still being carried out. Decades later, people are still looking for their relatives who died in the Great Patriotic War.
On the battlefield
During the war, neither the invaders nor the defenders of the Motherland had time to arrange normal burials for the dead or release their bodies to relatives. The fighting was very intense. After each, thousands of bodies remained on the battlefield. Germans, Russians, representatives of other nations - all mixed up.
The fate of the remains depended on who won the battle. The disposal (burial or cremation) of the bodies was carried out by the winners, and they did it at their own discretion. Usually they buried only their own fighters, and in a common grave to save time. The next day the army could set out again and continue to drive the enemy deeper into the country.
Since the Germans were on foreign territory, transporting the bodies of their dead was complicated for them by the long distance to Germany. Private soldiers were more often buried on captured Russian soil. The bodies of high-ranking officers were transported by medical services to Germany, where they were handed over to relatives. On the Soviet side, this mission lay with the Red Cross, but since there were always not enough hands, ordinary personnel helped.
The bodies of opponents were rarely buried. Usually they remained on the battlefield until they completely decomposed. Very often, after battles, the surviving inhabitants of nearby villages walked around the dead and looked for the bodies of Red Army soldiers in the mountains. The dead were buried as best they could. Sometimes wounded people were found, who were then hidden from the Nazis in barns and nursed back to health. And yet, most of the soldiers of both armies remained lying on that piece of land where death overtook them.
Release of bodies after the war
According to statistics from the German organization “Verein Russland Kriegsgräber” (translated into Russian as “War Graves in Russia”), about 1.4 million Wehrmacht soldiers may be buried on the territory of the former Soviet Union. The archives of this organization contain 2,309 letters from Germans trying to find out at least something about the fate of their husbands, fathers and grandfathers.
Between the Russian and German sides there has always been (and still exists) an unspoken agreement to hand over the discovered remains of fighters immediately after establishing their nationality without any barriers and upon first request. The search for the dead and missing is still being carried out by both countries participating in that war.
Requests from Germans most often come to the Russian Red Cross and a number of other public organizations. The search and reburial of the remains of Wehrmacht soldiers is carried out by the People's Union VDK (Germany). The storage of information about the dead and notification of their relatives is carried out by the German service WASt.
After the discovery of a new burial, exhumation and identification are carried out. The remains of Soviet soldiers are subjected to a ceremonial reburial with all due honors. The bones of the Nazis are handed over to the German side.
Speculation on death
The main evidence that the German soldier really died is the broken half of his badge with his personal number. Despite the fact that the issuance of any death certificates should be free of charge, there are plenty of unscrupulous dealers in war trophies.
Tokens of the dead are sold on such well-known trading platforms as Ebay. The cost of one can reach up to 180 euros. Such trading activities are severely prosecuted by representatives of the organization investigating the fate of missing soldiers VKSVG (Germany).
On the territory of the consular district of the Consulate General in Strasbourg, as of November 1, 2017, 34 military burial sites of Soviet soldiers from the Great Patriotic War were identified.
Unlike the First World War, archival data on dead Soviet soldiers is incomplete and is still waiting for its researcher. Almost all of the dead were prisoners of war held in prisoner of war camps. Some of them managed to escape and died fighting in the French Resistance.
After the end of the war, numerous graves were exhumed and the remains were moved and concentrated in several localities. There is evidence that the remains of some officers were transported to the USSR. In particular, there is a mention of this in materials on the exhumation of bodies in Beach.
DEPARTAMET DU (25)
There are 3 burial sites on the territory of the department, including one dating back to the Great Patriotic War.
At the military cemetery inRougemont (Rougemont) Nikolai Rodionov, who died on February 10, 1945, is buried 40 km northeast of Besançon.
DEPARTMENT OF JURA (39)
In the department, one burial site dates back to the Great Patriotic War.
Information about the special battalion.
On November 21, the General Staff demanded that the command of the Moscow defense zone cover Rogachev and Dmitrov, highlighting everything that was possible for this, but without weakening the defense on the near Moscow borders. Since it was impossible to remove a single unit or subdivision from the lines, all that remained was to resolve the issue of sending the only unit remaining in reserve - a special battalion of the Military Council.
It consisted of two rifle companies, a machine gun company, a anti-tank battery, a platoon of armored vehicles, an auto company, a communications platoon and was intended primarily to protect the headquarters of the Moscow Military District and the Ministry of Defense. It was envisaged that he would be involved in hostilities only in cases of extreme necessity.
On the night of November 21, a special battalion, reinforced by a machine-gun battalion, was loaded into vehicles and its commander, Major Eppelgard, received an order: to move to the Rogachev area and by the end of the day on November 22, take up defense along the northwestern and southwestern outskirts of the city. On November 25, an operational group of the 30th Army command arrived in Rogachev, headed by the chief of staff of the army G.I. Khetagurov, who took this battalion under his command.
In two days of heavy fighting, the battalion destroyed 13 enemy tanks, up to a company of infantry, and suppressed 3 mortars. The battalion was surrounded, in order to avoid heavy losses, its commander gave the soldiers the order to break through the enemy ring and reach Dmitrov, which was done. The enemy's attempts to break through Rogachev to Dmitrov on the move ran into the stamina and courage of units of the 30th Army Special Battalion, which blocked the path to the city. Thus, the courageous resistance of the MZO soldiers made it possible to delay enemy units for two days, which was important for the further course of military operations of the Soviet troops.
A special battalion of the Military Council of the MZO took an active part in the battles for the liberation of Maloyaroslavets at the end of December 1941 during the counter-offensive of Soviet troops. A battalion of 702 men sent to the 43rd Army received orders: during the night, go through the gap made by the 93rd Division into the forest east of Aristovo, attack and capture two villages, break through the only enemy communication from Maloyaroslavets to the front and destroy its batteries north of Savelovki.
Solving this problem was not easy, because... we had to walk through deep snow and forest behind enemy lines for 18-20 kilometers. But the battalion passed the ordeal with honor. The forces of the battalion and other military units broke the enemy’s resistance, and by the end of the day on January 2, 1942, Maloyaroslavets was completely cleared of the enemy. In the battles for Maloyaroslavets, the soldiers and commanders of the special battalion showed their courage and perseverance. On the recommendation of the military councils of the 43rd Army and the Moscow Defense Zone, 84 of them were awarded orders and medals of the Soviet Union.
One of the largest burial sites of victims of the Great Patriotic War was excavated near Gomel. We are talking about thousands of Soviet soldiers, refugees and city residents who were destroyed by the fascist invaders. Two dozen human bodies and many personal belongings have already been discovered in the first pit; the estimated length of the mass grave is about a kilometer. It was local residents who were able to find the mass grave from the stories of their parents, using German aerial photographs purchased on the Internet ( , “SB” for April 17, 2017).
A compressed autumn field on the outskirts of Gomel, just like 77 years ago. Then it became a place of mass execution. This is evidenced by today's finds, says volunteer Vitaly Medvedev:
- Look, there’s a skull, there’s a bullet hole in it. And here I found five such skulls in a row. Apparently the bodies were lying in stacks. You see, people killed like logs are not movie footage, but our history. 
This story is a local legend. Along the village of Krasnoe (a suburb of Gomel), an anti-tank ditch was dug in 1941 - the city’s defense line. It was his invaders who used it as a ready-made grave. Eyewitness accounts were recorded immediately after the liberation of the city by Soviet troops. They were registered more to search for war criminals than to perpetuate the memory of the dead. The Gomel ditch was filled in in the early 1960s. There is almost no documentary data left, only popular rumor, sharing memories Gomel resident Vladimir Kotov:
- This is my father's story. At that time he was a teenager. In the fall of 1941, I accidentally saw several trucks in the distance. The Germans brought people to be shot. He was hiding in the bushes. When the shots and screams subsided, he began to make his way to the execution site. The Germans left, but one of our soldiers was still alive. He crawled out of the ground and asked his father: “Someday, if the war ends, son, let them bury us.” My father told me this story, and my friends and I decided to get to the bottom of the truth. 
Rural legends have been verified by facts. Through the Internet, caring descendants acquired German photographs of military aerial photography of Gomel and the surrounding area in 1941. The village of Krasnoye and the anti-tank ditch were clearly visible on them. They asked the tractor driver: dig. And there were the bones... They filled it back up. We contacted the village council, and then the 52nd separate specialized search battalion, which is engaged in military excavations.
Our dialogue is interrupted by a cry: “We found something interesting! »
They bring a piece of decayed clothing, and in it is a sewn-in wallet with Soviet coins from the 1930s and 40s. Meager belongings for the future, which were taken away by the invaders. Different coins are found here, he says foreman of the 52nd separate specialized search battalion Denis Gribovsky:
- Over the course of a few days, the remains of supposedly 20 people were found, all from the Second World War, many of the skulls were shot through. Also various personal items: glasses, items of clothing, Soviet, Lithuanian, Polish coins. It is possible that those killed were refugees or prisoners displaced from these territories. There is a lot of work here. So far we have excavated a trench about 10-15 meters long, and the length of the anti-tank ditch is 700. We plan to work until the end of October. 
The scale of the burial may shock contemporaries. Over two years, more than 110 thousand Soviet soldiers were killed in the dungeons of the Gomel camp “Dulag-121”. During the years of occupation, the population of Gomel decreased 10 times - from 150 to 15 thousand people. There may be a mix of military and civilians here, the deputy puts forward a version Director of the Gomel Regional Museum of Military Glory Konstantin Mishchenko:
- How many people are buried in this ditch is unknown. But the count can go into the thousands.
Facts have been preserved from documents that to exterminate Gomel residents and prisoners of “Dulag-121”, five mobile crematoria and brick factory kilns operated in the city. But they simply could not cope with the terrible tasks of the Nazis. People were buried en masse on the site of the modern Central Stadium, some were taken out of town. Most likely, into this anti-tank ditch.
At the moment, soldiers of the 52nd battalion and volunteers of historical and patriotic clubs - about 15-20 people - are working at the excavation site. As local volunteers assure, there is not enough strength, the length of the ditch is 700 meters, the width is 4, so you won’t be able to make it before the frosts with shovels and enthusiasm, you need equipment. Plus a trailer, at least with hot tea, the weather is rainy. Activists hope that their work will lead not only to the reburial of the remains, but also to the creation on this site of a small memorial with a chapel in memory of the victims of the past war.
By the way, near a wooden cross installed at this place by residents of the agricultural town of Krasnoye, a priest from the local church read a prayer for the repose of the souls of the departed, and then held a memorial service.
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