WWII pilot identified after 70 yrs Poland opens war museum

Copenhagen, March 24: A Danish newspaper said the pilot of a German World War II airplane that crashed into a northern Denmark swamp more than 70 years ago has been identified.

Daily Nordjyske said on Friday that 19-year-old Hans Wunderlich, who crashed on October 10, 1944, has no next of kin and may be buried in a war cemetery in Denmark. Nordjyske quoted a Berlin-based organisation that keeps records of deceased German WWII soldiers.

Earlier this month, 14year-old Daniel Rom Kristiansen was checking

German Pilot Hans Wunderlich was 19 years old when his fighter plane crashed over the Danish village of Birkelse

out a story about a Nazi Germany plane that had crashed some 250 km northwest of Copenhagen.

Using a metal detector, he found the engine, guns and twisted fuselage parts five to six meters underground. He also unearthed a German Luftwaffe uniform, a book and bones. Pilot Hans Wunderlich was 19 years old when his fighter plane crashed over the Danish village of Birkelse.

The pilot's death was officially recorded on March 5, 1945, at Holenbrunn City Hall, in the municipality where Wunderlich's father, also called Hans Wunderlich, lived.

Wunderlich's parents died many years ago and the young pilot was unmarried with no children. His only sibling, a sister, died in 2006, also without children. The authorities were left with no family members to inform of the discovery of pilot and aircraft. Warsaw: A major World War II museum opened in northern Poland on Thursday amid plans by the conservative government to change its content to fit the government’s nationalist views. The Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk is at the center of a standoff between the historians creating it and Poland’s populist government, which is seeking a court order to close it.