Eli5:After a battle, how they do to get rid of the dead people ?
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It entirely depends.
Sometimes they just dig a large hole and throw them all in, push them all in with a bulldozer, etc. That’s mostly for the enemy though. For their own soldiers they might gather them up to formally identify them and then temporarily bury them in graves until after the war.
After WW1 and WW2 a number of countries went and dug up their dead and moved them to official graveyards. They didn’t take them home as there were too many.
Today countries like the USA and Australia gather up their dead and then send them home in a coffin draped with their national flag.
And of course they still find bodies from previous wars. Some were buried by artillery fire (throws dirt over them, collapsed trenches and buildings, etc). Some were just buried on the spot by their comrades. Others have just laid where they fell.
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