06-08-2015 23:04 via feeds.theguardian.com

Austrian man returns American soldier's wallet lost during the second world war

Josef Ruckhofer discovered the wallet of Eligios Ramos, whose battalion was stationed in Austria in 1945, while renovating his late grandfather’s farmhouseA wallet lost 70 years ago by an American soldier in Austria during the second world war was returned to its rightful owner thanks to a doctor who discovered the item in his late grandfather’s farmhouse.
Josef Ruckhofer said on Thursday he had been renovating the house near the city of Salzburg when he stumbled across the leather wallet un
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