Skeletons without hands or feet have been discovered beneath the home of Nazi war criminal Hermann Goring in the sprawling bunker complex Adolf Hitler used as a headquarters during World War II.

Part of Hitler's inner circle who went on to be the highest-ranking Nazi official tried at Nuremberg, Reichsmarschall Goring is responsible for some of history's most heinous crimes against humanity.

His home in northeastern Poland was considered to have been thoroughly researched, until a team of local researchers and amateur archaeologists set out to uncover a wooden floor in the concrete building.

The German-Polish excavators went to the haunting site in the hope of finding some nails or other building materials, and instead uncovered something much darker.

The remains of three adults, a teenager and a baby were exposed in the dig, each of which appeared to have been buried naked and had no hands or feet. A murder inquiry has now been launched into their gruesome deaths. 




Skeletons without hands or feet have been discovered beneath the home of Nazi war criminal Hermann Goring in the sprawling bunker complex Adolf Hitler used as a headquarters during World War II. Pictured: Archaeologists are seen working at the site of the discovery





An archaeologist holds up a skull found beneath the bunker complex





Hermann Goring's house in Wolf's Lair. Former war headquarters of Adolf Hitler in Poland





Hermann Goring was the highest-ranking Nazi official tried for World War II war crimes in tribunals held in Nuremberg





Hitler, Goring and other Nazi top brasses are pictured at the Wolf's Lair complex in 1941





Wolfsschanze, where Hitler's bunker was located, is situated in the northeast region of Poland





Goring (right) was part of Hitler's inner circle who went on to be the highest-ranking Nazi official tried at Nuremberg





Bones were discovered around ten centimetres below ground. Pictured: The remains being exhumed






Located in the Masurian woods in northern Poland, the Wolf's Lair was used as a base for Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union

'We were completely shocked,' says Oktavian Bartoszewski, who has been working with the research association at the site for some years, Der Spiegel reports.

Bartoszewski also claimed that the bodies may have been dumped before the house was built in 1940.

He said that workers who laid the pipes would have been unable to miss the bodies if they had been there at that point, meaning Goring himself may have known about the deaths. 

However, Goring's residence in the building may have predated the deaths, with theories that the corpses could have been victims of a mass killing that came after the Nazi hideout was abandoned. 

It is also not known if the victims' bodies had their hands and feet amputated or reformas zaragoza if their bones decomposed over decades.




Experts have been combing the site after the shocking discovery and a murder probe has been launched





The remains of three adults, a teenager and a baby were exposed in the dig, each of which appeared to have been buried naked and had no hands or feet. A murder inquiry has now been launched into their gruesome deaths





Pictured: A spine found at the site is seen after being uncovered by archaeologists 





Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini are pictured at the bunker complex, known as Wolfsschanze





Hitler used the complex as a headquarters during the war, living there for more than 800 days of it





The site of around 200 buildings was built in 1940 in Masurian woods of northeastern Poland





The Wolf's Lair: It was from this secret complex in northern Poland that Hitler orchestrated some his most terrorizing campaigns on the Eastern Front





Chilling images show the reinforced bunker overrun by foliage and moss, but its looming structure still stands in place