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WW1 photo postcard dead French soldiers barbed wire Verdun France 1916
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WW1 photo postcard dead French soldiers barbed wire Verdun France 1916
German photo postcard of at least two dead French soldiers wrapped in barbed wire. Casualties of the bloodiest battle in history, at Verdun France from 21 February to 18 December 1916
Written on back “Verdun”.
Card #1631 on back, bottom.
Five toned areas on back, bleeding into front.
(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale)
The Battle of Verdun was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse. The German 5th Army attacked the defences of the Fortified Region of Verdun (RFV, Région Fortifiée de Verdun) and those of the French Second Army on the right (east) bank of the Meuse. Using the experience of the Second Battle of Champagne in 1915, the Germans planned to capture the Meuse Heights, an excellent defensive position with good observation for artillery-fire on Verdun. The Germans hoped that the French would commit their strategic reserve to recapture the position and suffer catastrophic losses at little cost to the Germans.
The battle lasted for 302 days, the longest and one of the most costly in human history. In 2000, Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann calculated that the French suffered 377,231 casualties and the Germans 337,000, a total of 714,231, an average of 70,000 a month. In 2014, William Philpott wrote of 976,000 casualties in 1916 and 1,250,000 in the vicinity during the war. In France, the battle came to symbolise the determination of the French Army and the destructiveness of the war.
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