[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.

[lodi90]

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

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Cool piece. Thanks.

[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.

[dljordan]

“People are already trying to loot the site.”

I wouldn't go near it, being a superstitious Irishman.

[mass55th]

Thanks for sharing. My great-uncle served with the 38th Battalion (Ottawa) of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in France during WWI. He was killed two months before the Armistice, on the Arras-Cambrai Road near the village of Cambrai, which is approximately 71 miles from Craonne. He’s buried in a British Military Cemetery in Wimile, Pas-de-Calais.

[volunbeer]

What a horrible way to die. All war is horrible, but that war was particularly gruesome with little break from the trenches.

[ALASKA]

That is pretty cool. I hope it has all been secured.

[Kartographer]

"Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead:"

Mark it, build a a memorial and leave them in peace. Besides things going the way they are God will raise them soon enough.

[Joe Boucher]

well Nazi memorabilia is a big seller.

[Red Badger]

as well as unexploded shells - left in a heap...............................

[moovova]

"On April 22, 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line."

I feel no sympathy for the Germans...as I'm sure the French didn't either.