The mass graves are located underneath an army sports field in the southern city of Graz. Government officials say they contain about 70 bodies.
The victims were concentration camp inmates and others, all killed by the SS to eliminate witnesses to Nazi atrocities shortly before Soviet troops arrived.
The graves were identified from wartime photos, made from U.S. bombers, showing open graves and bodies.
The Second World War camp was uncovered in a field on the route of Scottish Water’s new Glencorse pipeline, off Frogston Road, and is thought to have been founded in the wake of the Allies’ defeat at Dunkirk in 1940.
CFA Archaeology staff have also discovered musket balls that may be evidence of a camp set up by Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century, and hope to find artefacts dating back even further.
Project manager Bruce Glendinning said: “There are historical references to Roman artefacts being found on the site in 19th century but we are yet to find any of these ourselves.
“The area we’re excavating stretches all the way from Penicuik to Glencorse so if it’s there we’ll find it.
“There are also some written reports of Oliver Cromwell staying with a local landowner nearby, and we have uncovered musket balls which could possibly date from that era.”
An unexploded German bomb from WWII has been uncovered at a building site in Southampton, England.
Hampshire police said the 45kg (100lb) device was found by construction workers in London Road at 1005 GMT.
A 200m (220yd) area was cordoned off and buildings evacuated.
Some people are now being allowed back in but the device is still being inspected by a team from the Royal Engineers who hope to move it soon.
Office workers and other people were being allowed back into the cordoned off area if they had a legitimate reason to go back.
Joey Cordevin, a spokeswoman for the film-makers, said: ‘Most images from this war were made in black and white.
‘But for this film they were colourised using the very latest technology to allow people now to see the war as people then did.’
The footage has already proved extremely powerful for those who experienced the war first hand.
Berlin local Elke Breitenback, 78, said: ‘It is extraordinary. I remember my father coming back on leave after the invasion of France bringing sweets.
‘Now for the first time I was able to see what he experienced.’
The cube, according to specialists at the JRC’s Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU), was produced in 1943 for the Nazi nuclear programme and was used in the lab of famous boffin Werner Heisenberg (of uncertainty principle fame). The plate was apparently part of experiments by Heisenberg’s collaborator Karl Wirtz.
Most historical analysis, with hindsight, suggests that the Nazi nuclear research programme never got very close to developing an atomic weapon. There was no equivalent of the Manhattan Project; rather, different lines of research were followed in different labs. Furthermore the Germans were hampered by having driven many top physicists out of the country with their anti-Semitic policies, and also by drafting other boffins into the army to fight as ordinary soldiers.
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