Unidentified remains of 2 German soldiers found near WWII motorcycle in Danube River

A relic of World War II has emerged from the Danube more than 80 years after the war ended — along with the remains of two German soldiers whose identities still remain a mystery.The Wehrmacht motorcycle — which officials identified as a DKW NZ 350-1 — was found in the Danube River in central Budapest this summer.The discovery was announced by the German War Graves Commission, an organization that works to locate, recover and identify German war dead, in August.Pictures show the heavily corroded motorcycle caked in mud and rust — with its frame, wheels, fuel tank and storage boxes still largely intact.“Because the harbor mud is mixed with gas oil, the motorcycle and identification tags are well preserved,” the German War Graves Commission said in a statement, adding that the motorcycle model “was considered particularly robust and reliable at the time.”Officials also found the remains of two German soldiers while recovering the motorcycle, along with two well-preserved identification tags.Both tags were still intact. Typically, one half of a fallen soldier’s tag was left with the body, while the other was sent to the Wehrmacht Information Office so that the soldier’s family could be notified, according to the commission.Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.

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Never miss a story.The identification tags found with the remains are still being deciphered, Diane Tempel-Bornett, a spokesperson for the German War Graves Commission, told Fox News Digital in a translated email.Tempel-Bornett said that despite the discovery of the tags, the identities of the two soldiers remain unknown.“The fact that the identification tags were found with the dead does not necessarily mean that they belonged to them — although that is quite possible,” she said.The fact that the tags wer...