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Mettlach: The voice of the dead. The mass grave under the sidewalk. In 1989 or 1988, a civil engineering crew was working on the renovation of Heinertstrasse in Mettlach. During the construction work, one of the workers broke into a sidewalk. He broke into a mass grave. According to contemporary witnesses, several dozen skulls, bones, shoes and items of clothing are still lying there today. A report by Sven Herzog.