OT: Amazing pictures of landscape still scarred by WWI

VPaulus · Post by **VPaulus** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:49 pm

http://www.coolcrack.com/2011/11/amazin ... still.html

I find particularly touching the French soldiers grave. Still untouched.

Xerkis · Post by **Xerkis** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:22 pm

Truly amazing.
Thanks for sharing it.

XShadowY · Post by **XShadowY** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:22 pm

Very good collection and impressive even without the perfect sun angle or moody mist.

I suggest a visit of these places whenever you have the chance of travelling through or to these areas. My most memorable spot during my visit (in terms of madness) was the hill at Vauquois. Atop the hill german and french trenches were/ are only a few metres away from each other, inside the hill a vast system of tunnels and galleries (which can`t be entered anymore). Some of these galleries even carry their original wooden name`s plate. Around 500 mine explosions shaped the hill like modeling clay.

Walking around there, bearing in mind what happened, really delivers some kind of strange atmosphere and the question, if this all was really necessary?

Good find, VPaulus!

Razz1 · Post by **Razz1** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:31 pm

My Grandpa was an ambulance driver and he always told me about walking over dead bodies all day long and everyday.

You wouldn't believe the rage if you mentioned the word Hitler or Germany.
Back in the day they used a belt to scold you.

Would you believe my Grandpa was German? He was, and hated what happened in the world during those times.

Do you know about today's world depression?

There was hardly a day my grandparents never harped on us kids about saving and picking up every penny we find.

They lived through the 1920's depression and taught us how to save.

Those lessons helped me survive the current depression.