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Rob E
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13th Feb 12 at 17:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I dont know if anyone saw this in the papers lately but what a remarkable find this was! A company in France surveying for a new road came across a German trench which has been preserved like a time capsule

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099187/Bodies-21-German-soldiers-buried-alive-WW1-trench-perfectly-preserved-94-years-later.html
Marc
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13th Feb 12 at 17:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Interesting.
Ben J
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13th Feb 12 at 18:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Amazing! Would love to see that!
taylorboosh
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13th Feb 12 at 18:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

amazing... poor men though
Rob E
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13th Feb 12 at 18:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Whats the bet they just fill it back in and put a road over it
taylorboosh
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13th Feb 12 at 18:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

nah, war tomb
Jambo
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Saw this the other day. Can't believe the condition of the news paper. Fascinating find. I would say poor men but you know they where the bosche
taylorboosh
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were the what???
Jambo
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13th Feb 12 at 18:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Bosche bastards, the Hun, jerry etc
taylorboosh
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ahhh baddys then? still feel sorry for them, soldiers in the war were just normal men doing what they were told by a greater evil... i wonder how many agreed with what they were doing?
Rob E
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I did a bit more reading into this kind of thing. Apparently the Dutch farmers still have to take great care when ploughing their fields as they regularly uncover unexploded shells and grenades etc from the first world war. Apparently the Belgian army has built a processing plant especially for these bombs. 200 tonnes a year are discovered
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my dads mate went over metal detecting and said there were piles of shells at the edge of fields that had been ploughed up, he brought me home a live bullet he found, still got it under my bed
taylorboosh
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thats cool, but surely they must be all but found by now
Rob E
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about 1.5 billion shells were fired in WWI so thats an awful lot of shells to find
taylorboosh
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in ww1? what about 2? im sure there will have been even more
Rob E
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Deffinately, This is an interesting article about it http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16131857
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quote:
Originally posted by john-d
ahhh baddys then? still feel sorry for them, soldiers in the war were just normal men doing what they were told by a greater evil... i wonder how many agreed with what they were doing?


Very much so. The soldiers, whilst trying to kill each other still had respect for one another. They were just doing thier job
taylorboosh
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jesus thats amazing
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quote:
Originally posted by JonnyJ
quote:
Originally posted by john-d
ahhh baddys then? still feel sorry for them, soldiers in the war were just normal men doing what they were told by a greater evil... i wonder how many agreed with what they were doing?


Very much so. The soldiers, whilst trying to kill each other still had respect for one another. They were just doing thier job


I only got this view after I watched boy in striped pyjamas
Jambo
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I was of course joking. But as much as you can feel sorry for them. Remember they weren't all innocent daisy picking Samaritans.
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thats fascinating!

if you have ever watched a programme called ''hitlers children'' its about the hitler youth and how they were brainwashed into believing they were supreme etc. . . not much different to todays suicide bombers etc. mentalists
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same principle gav, you see it on boy in jarmas that kids are told jews are demons ect

jambo i knew that
baza31
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I feel sorry for the goat
Ojc
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quote:
Originally posted by BeetleGav
thats fascinating!

if you have ever watched a programme called ''hitlers children'' its about the hitler youth and how they were brainwashed into believing they were supreme etc. . . not much different to todays suicide bombers etc. mentalists


We need Hitler Jugden these days

 
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