Discovering WW1 tunnel of death hidden in France for a century

BBC ^ | 3-15-21 | Hugh Schofield

[dynachrome]

People are already trying to loot the site.

[dynachrome]

Have you seen this?

[Rurudyne]

No doubt. People seem all too frequently to live by the old code: if it’s not nailed down it’s mine and if I can pry it up it wasn’t nailed down.

[GreyFriar]

Considering that there are many unexploded pieces of ordnance in the area and in the tunnel itself, I think it should be considered a war grave and treated accordingly.

I am using the precedent accorded to warships that have been sunk with many of their crew entombed within the hull.

[DJ MacWoW]

Throughout history, scavengers would descend on a battle site and take whatever they could strip off the dead and dying. Then we became more civilized. Now the pendulum is swinging backwards...........

[Candor7]

People are already trying to loot the site.>>>>>>>

I’d want to collect a few working Mauser’s.

[dfwgator]

Stupid, stupid war.

[ConservativeMind]

I am really glad when sick invaders are killed.

[Leaning Right]

That was an interesting, if very sad, article. So many people died for nothing. And it’s just more evidence about how stupid, and wasteful, and unnecessary, WW I was.

[dfwgator]

There were no saints in that war.

[lodi90]

Interesting to see the British want to honor the German war dead more than the Germans want to. I’m not surprised.

[desertfreedom765]

The start of the decline of Western Civilization.

War is so wasteful and evil.

[dfwgator]

The start of the decline of Western Civilization.

Agree 100%....World War II was merely piling on.

[dynachrome]

Should be GEW 98s.

[dfwgator]

If you ever are in London, do whatever you can to go to the Imperial War Museum.

[Candor7]

Mauser C96 broomhandles would be around too.

A pair would be nice.( putting in my order, LOL)

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Cool piece. Thanks.

[rlmorel]

Just awful. Awful.

The governments were like a room full of big, drunk, stupid, aggressive, hair-trigger guys fumbling around in a room until two of them bump shoulders and start getting pissed at each other and everyone else joins in.

It nearly brings tears to the eyes, the waste. The needless waste. In human life.

[Pappy Smear]

I think a case could be made that the world would be/would have been a better place had Germany won WWI, or at least done it quickly before the US entered the war.

No rise of Hitler, potentially no rise of the Soviet Union.

Of course, who knows what would have happened if they had won/hostilities ceased in Europe. But the results of the WWI with Germany losing sure led to a lot of bad stuff.

[BrexitBen]

” stupid, stupid war “

The men of both sides in that war didn’t believe in it.