[egbert]

Update:
Today I received a phone call from a VdK official. The Romanian authorities, in this case the Romanian MoD, has rejected to relocate the rotten, deteriorated 78 German graves from WWI and II to a proper cared VdK -cemetery in Romania. No explanation came forward to the official Volksbund request for relocation on own German expenses. The 2 year old request seemed to sit idle at a corrupt MoD official's desk. Even the VdK is furious but what can you do with Romania being a "reliable" NATO country, whose veteran's and war grave affaires are handled within the MoD? Well the VdK has immediately launched a new request and consequently I have to wait another 2 years for a response to give the dead a decent and well cared place in a VdK concentration cemetery in central Romania. Unbelievable and only possible in the wild Eastern European hemisphere despite an existing MoU between Germany and Romania on the commonly agreed and mutual work of their war grave commissions, dated and signed 25/06/1996 . The ex-communist hardliners still seem to prevail....and the VdK driven by law and ethics of course is not paying the proper bribe to the Romanian MoD official which is believed to be headed by a colonel.