Posted on 03/24/2021 6:02:27 PM PDT by dynachrome
Not since the 1970s has there been such an important discovery from the Great War in France. In woods on a ridge not far from the city of Reims, the bodies of more than 270 German soldiers have lain for more than a century - after they died the most agonising deaths imaginable.On 4 May 1917 the French launched an artillery bombardment targeting the two ends of the tunnel, sending up an observation balloon to get a sight on the north-facing slope.
For once their accuracy was formidable. A shell fired from a naval gun hit the entrance, triggering more explosions from ammunition that was stored there and sending a cloud of acrid fumes into the shaft. Another shell sealed the exit.
Inside, the men from the 10th and 11th companies of the 111th Reserve Regiment were trapped. Over the next six days, as oxygen ran out, they either suffocated or took their own lives. Some asked comrades to kill them.
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Human nature is strange. WW1 is so tragic you almost have to laugh at it. Must be some kind of reality-avoidance or defense mechanism.
WW1 is so tragic you almost have to laugh at it.
Pretty much what “Blackadder Goes Forth” did...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgyB6lwE8E0
The British should not even got involved. For that matter neither should have Imperial Germany or Czarist Russia ! The war began over a Serbian terroris shooting the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Serbia and A-H should have been allowed to do their “one more fool thing in the Balkans” war! The world could have set back and gone “ho-Hum” !
Today’s world would be a better place !
“...I am using the precedent accorded to warships that have been sunk with many of their crew entombed..”
Many war graves of iron hulled ships have been “recovered” by the Red Chinese “pirates”.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/allied-war-graves-off-indonesia-desecrated-destroyed/
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