Many bodies of World War II German soldiers have remained unidentified because of the poor design of their identification tags. WWII German ID tags do not record a soldier's name and particulars such as his hometown or date of birth, but only the name of the unit he did his basic training in, as well as a serial number unique only to the unit. This coding and recording system is potentially problematic in several ways. This video explains how the German identification tag system worked, and what kinds of mistakes and problems occure because of it (examples from Operation Dragoon and Stalingrad).
Because only the Bundesarchiv Abteilung PA (former Deutsche Dienststelle) is capable of decoding the inscriptions on ID tags, the process is at best always long and complicated.
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