(23 Jun 2005)
1. Wideshot excavator digging
2. Closeup excavator bucket
3. Midshot man filming bones
4. Wideshot archaeologists digging
5. Closeup skull
6. Midshot archeologists and skeletons
7. Closeup skeleton being brushed down
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Daine Stankeviciute, Head Archaelogist
''Here is a cemetery of First World War German soldiers, and here are buried about five to eight hundred soldiers and now we have excavated one hundred bodies. ''
9. Wideshot gymnasium and bones
10. Close up bones
11. Wideshot archaeologists looking at book
12. Photo of cemetery c.1915-1917
13. Wideshot of bones
14. Setup shot Vidmantas Janaustas
15. Closeup skeleton head being brushed
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Vidmantas Janaustas, Paleontologist
'' We have not much objective data on the health of these individuals that were taken into the army at that time, on their dental status, on general health status, on other diseases and on rules of recruitment. ''
17. Closeup bones being sorted
18. Midshot skull being measured
19. Wideshot people digging
20. Midshot digging
21. Wideshot skeletons
22. Closeup soldiers digging with spades
23. Wideshot soldiers digging
STORYLINE
The bodies of more than five hundred German soldiers recently discovered in the grounds of school in Lithuania were being prepared for reburial in a German Cemetery on Thursday.
The remains of German soldiers buried on the grounds of a former First World War field hospital in in the Lithuanian town of Parevezys were being excavated by archaeologists a week ago.
They are to reburied in the German Cemetery in the town of Klaipeda.
The skeletons were recently discovered in the grounds of the Balcikonis School in the town of Parevezys, 130 km north of Vilnius, Lithuania.
As children played above ground, the bodies of more than five hundred German soldiers lay unnoticed beneath their feet.
The school is situated on the grounds of a First World War field hospital, whose adjoining cemetery was bulldozed by the Soviets after the end of the Second World War.
The remains are now being excavated by Lithuanian archaeologists, who plan to rebury the skeletons in the German Cemetery in the Lithuanian town of Klaipeda.
The German army invaded Lithuania in 1915 and occupied the country until 1917, when the country declared itself an independent nation.
It remained independent until being invaded yet again during the Second World War, this time by the Soviet Army who remained there until the collapse of Communism.
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