Forensic investigation of war graves from WWI and WWII in Hungary

The Hungarian war grave care professionals weren’t in an easy situation when they started the work because, until 2012, the burial places of Hungarian soldiers had no legal protection. It was necessary to develop legal regulations and scientific methods. Since this is a multidisciplinary field, the work is quite compound as many professionals from different field of sciences work together. This work requires the harmonic work of military historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and geneticists. Thanks to the conscientious work of these professionals, nowadays, we can talk about a stable institutionalized, multidisciplinary war grave care in Hungary which encompasses the work of the above-mentioned professionals. Thanks to scientific development, new opportunities are available for the professionals to identify war heroic deads. In this article, the history and the formation of the Hungarian war grave care are introduced and the methodology of the Hungarian war grave care professionals work is shown. The paper also aims to illustrate the changes in laws and the standard practice currently followed by professionals during the exploration and the processing of the human remains.