A Forbidden No Man’s Land
 

I had no idea this existed.



http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/0...isoned-by-war/

THAT is fascinating!

I saw this yesterday from my ex-brother in law, very fascinating

I wouldn't call it fashinating, something like that in the hearth of Europe is simply dreadful.

Sergio

It's stunning the amount of ordnance fired in WW1.....tens of millions of artillery rounds, not to count small arms. A British machine gun company fired a million rounds in one 24hr period with their Vickers guns. What a horrible war, unimaginable carnage and waste and suffering, all for no good reason, ignited by a 19 year old kid with a FN .380.

It is a lesson that needs to be taught in every school world wide.
1. The monetary cost of war.
2. The human cost of war.
3. The legacy cost of war that in this case has endured for 100 years and will probably last another 100+.

Dale

I agree also with you.
During the WWI too many people were sent out of their trenches and used like cannon fodder.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/FWWcasualties.htm

Sergio

Great post. I have never seen any of those photos and I wasn't aware of the vast red zones around Paris! I do noticed when modern construction projects have to stop every year in some parts of Germany, because of finding unexplored ordinance buried deep under old buildings or river.

I realized that Germany agreed to make reparations payments to several countries and chose to stop paying from WW-I and after WW-II they stopped paying Russia (1950). There is a running debate about their obligations to pay Greece, today. But, after a recent visit to Germany, my well educated German guide told me that the Germans considered their war reparations payments complete and they they, the tax payers, were no longer paying a reparations tax.