Berlin holds ceremony for human remains connected to Nazi research

BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin held a ceremony on Thursday to bury the bone fragments of what scientists believe to be victims of crimes committed in the name of science including in the Nazi era, that were uncovered in recent years.

Fragments of human and animal bones were first found by chance on the campus of Berlin's Free University in 2014 during construction work. It was suspected that they originated from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, which stood on the site from 1927 to 1945.