“…Over the past two decades, a large number of World War II sites have been investigated in Europe, North America and the Pacific, including fortifications, bunkers and shelters, military supply facilities, prisoner of war, forced labour, internment, concentration and extermination camps, battlefields, mass graves, etc. (Gaffney et al, 2004;Gilead et al, 2009;Theune 2010;Banks 2011;Price and Knecht 2012;Early 2013;Tunwell et al, 2015;Camp 2016;Mushynsky et al, 2018;Konczewski 2020). Archaeological research has documented the darkest and deadliest moments of the War, revealing the spatial patterns of the sites and their relationship to the surrounding landscape.…”