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Gesture of Reconciliation: On September 22, 1984, French President François Mitterrand (left) and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was then the Chancellor, reached the hand over the graves of Verdun. For minutes, the two politicians remained silent in this attitude. Whether spontaneous gestures or calculated staging: the photo has burned itself into the collective memory as a symbol of German-French reconciliation.
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Gesture of Reconciliation: On September 22, 1984, French President François Mitterrand (left) and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was then the Chancellor, reached the hand over the graves of Verdun. For minutes, the two politicians remained silent in this attitude. Whether spontaneous gestures or calculated staging: the photo has burned itself into the collective memory as a symbol of German-French reconciliation.
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Mondlandschaft: Zahlreiche Höhen und Schluchten charakterisieren das Schlachtfeld von Verdun, wie diese zeitgenössische Illustration veranschaulicht (veröffentlicht am 26. März 1916). Der Gegner war meist in Sichtweite, von Fesselballons, Flugzeugen und Anhöhen aus wurde jede Bewegung registriert.
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Lunar landscape: Numerous highs and gorges characterize the Battlefield of Verdun as illustrated by this contemporary illustration (published March 26, 1916). The enemy was mostly in sight, from fetter balloons, airplanes and heights, every movement was registered.
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/schlacht-um-verdun-apokalypse-des-stellungskriegs-fotostrecke-134405-21.html
Mondlandschaft: Zahlreiche Höhen und Schluchten charakterisieren das Schlachtfeld von Verdun, wie diese zeitgenössische Illustration veranschaulicht (veröffentlicht am 26. März 1916). Der Gegner war meist in Sichtweite, von Fesselballons, Flugzeugen und Anhöhen aus wurde jede Bewegung registriert.
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Lunar landscape: Numerous highs and gorges characterize the Battlefield of Verdun as illustrated by this contemporary illustration (published March 26, 1916). The enemy was mostly in sight, from fetter balloons, airplanes and heights, every movement was registered.
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/schlacht-um-verdun-apokalypse-des-stellungskriegs-fotostrecke-134405-21.html
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WWI, Eastern Front, undated; Nurses and Russian Army personnel attached to the Red Cross unit of Florence Farmborough sleeping in a haystack.
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"Helmets and Skulls": The photo shows the impact of a heavy grenade, in the foreground lie several helmets. In total, at least 20 million shells were fired at the Battle of Verdun. The guns plowed the ground, whole villages were pulverized. Even decades later farmers found bones in the earth. This is the first stanza of a poem published by Erich Kästner in 1932:
On the battlefields of Verdun
the dead do not find any rest.
There are
helmets and skulls, thighs and shoes from the earth .
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/schlacht-um-verdun-apokalypse-des-stellungskriegs-fotostrecke-134405-19.html
"Helmets and Skulls": The photo shows the impact of a heavy grenade, in the foreground lie several helmets. In total, at least 20 million shells were fired at the Battle of Verdun. The guns plowed the ground, whole villages were pulverized. Even decades later farmers found bones in the earth. This is the first stanza of a poem published by Erich Kästner in 1932:
On the battlefields of Verdun
the dead do not find any rest.
There are
helmets and skulls, thighs and shoes from the earth .
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/schlacht-um-verdun-apokalypse-des-stellungskriegs-fotostrecke-134405-19.html
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Italian troops retired from Caporetto shortly before the arrival of German troops on October 24, 1917
Colonne italiane in ritirata da Caporetto poco prima dell'arrivo delle truppe tedesche il 24 ottobre 1917
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Isoliert: Das Foto zeigt einen deutschen Soldaten nahe des Fort Vaux - von dem Kameraden zu seiner Linken sind nur noch die Beine zu sehen. Die in der Schlacht um Verdun kämpfenden Männer litten massiv unter dem Zustand völliger Isolation. Immer wieder beschädigten Angriffe die offen verlegten Telefonleitungen, die Kommunikation zwischen kämpfenden Soldaten und Befehlshabern wurde abgeschnitten. So schrieb etwa der Franzose Noël Vacher, Jahrgang 1900: "Wir erhielten von niemandem mehr irgendeinen Befehl. Wir wussten nicht, wer in den Löchern nebenan lag. Wir waren uns völlig selbst überlassen." Oftmals einzige Verbindung zwischen der Gefechtsführung und den Truppen an vorderster Front: die "Läufer", die unter Geschosshagel hin- und hereilten, um Informationen zu überbringen.
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Isolated: The photo shows a German soldier near the Fort Vaux - only the legs can be seen from his comrade to his left. The men fighting in the Battle of Verdun suffered massively under the condition of complete isolation. Again and again damaged attacks the open-laid telephone lines, the communication between fighting soldiers and commanding officers was cut off. For example, the Frenchman Noël Vacher, born in 1900, wrote: "We were not given any orders by anybody, we did not know who was in the holes next door, we were left to ourselves." Often the only link between the command and the troops on the front line was the "runners", who were running under Geschosshagel to exchange information.
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/schlacht-um-verdun-apokalypse-des-stellungskriegs-fotostrecke-134405-19.html
Isoliert: Das Foto zeigt einen deutschen Soldaten nahe des Fort Vaux - von dem Kameraden zu seiner Linken sind nur noch die Beine zu sehen. Die in der Schlacht um Verdun kämpfenden Männer litten massiv unter dem Zustand völliger Isolation. Immer wieder beschädigten Angriffe die offen verlegten Telefonleitungen, die Kommunikation zwischen kämpfenden Soldaten und Befehlshabern wurde abgeschnitten. So schrieb etwa der Franzose Noël Vacher, Jahrgang 1900: "Wir erhielten von niemandem mehr irgendeinen Befehl. Wir wussten nicht, wer in den Löchern nebenan lag. Wir waren uns völlig selbst überlassen." Oftmals einzige Verbindung zwischen der Gefechtsführung und den Truppen an vorderster Front: die "Läufer", die unter Geschosshagel hin- und hereilten, um Informationen zu überbringen.
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Isolated: The photo shows a German soldier near the Fort Vaux - only the legs can be seen from his comrade to his left. The men fighting in the Battle of Verdun suffered massively under the condition of complete isolation. Again and again damaged attacks the open-laid telephone lines, the communication between fighting soldiers and commanding officers was cut off. For example, the Frenchman Noël Vacher, born in 1900, wrote: "We were not given any orders by anybody, we did not know who was in the holes next door, we were left to ourselves." Often the only link between the command and the troops on the front line was the "runners", who were running under Geschosshagel to exchange information.
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WW1, 1916. French soldiers in a trench at Verdun,
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Wounded: Troubled soldiers drag themselves past Verdun across a field. During the day the duration of the bombardment often prevented the wounded from moving even from the place. They lay there for hours before someone found them and transported them to the sanitary facility in the shelter of the night. The theology scholar Johannes Haas wrote on the battlefield on June 1, 1916: "I am lying on the battlefield with a bullet, I believe I have to die, I am glad to have some time to prepare myself for the heavenly homecoming." Haas died the same day
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/schlacht-um-verdun-apokalypse-des-stellungskriegs-fotostrecke-134405-18.html
Wounded: Troubled soldiers drag themselves past Verdun across a field. During the day the duration of the bombardment often prevented the wounded from moving even from the place. They lay there for hours before someone found them and transported them to the sanitary facility in the shelter of the night. The theology scholar Johannes Haas wrote on the battlefield on June 1, 1916: "I am lying on the battlefield with a bullet, I believe I have to die, I am glad to have some time to prepare myself for the heavenly homecoming." Haas died the same day
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/schlacht-um-verdun-apokalypse-des-stellungskriegs-fotostrecke-134405-18.html
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The German Spring Offensive, March-July 1918 The Operation Gneisenau. A German mortar section with horse-drawn transport moving through wooded country on the Montdidier - Noyon sector of the front, June 1918. German official photographer Source : IWM - Q 55351 (Colours by Frédéric Duriez from France)
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Austrian soldiers building a tunnel in an alpine area on the Italian-Austrian front, August 1918
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