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Within hours, word spread through the nearby village, and curious onlookers began gathering at the edge of the excavation site. Older residents stood quietly at the back, some of them squinting as if trying to remember something from long ago. A few of them had heard the stories — tales passed down from parents and grandparents about the chaos that had swept through these forests during the Second World War. Stories about retreating columns, abandoned equipment, and things lost to time.
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