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1916: The Bloody Battle of Verdun
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7 Articles
The Verdun Memorial launched its 2026 season this Wednesday, February 18. A special year is set to mark the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun.
On February 21, 1916, the Battle of Verdun began. For 300 days, the artillery transformed 30 square kilometres into a lunar landscape. Sixty million shells, 300,000 dead, hundreds of thousands of wounded. One hundred and ten years later, Verdun remained the absolute symbol of the First World War and a pillar of French memory. Nicolas Barret, director of the Verdun Memorial, deciphers the military demise, the combative experience and the construc…
The German attack on Verdun 1916 did not simply follow cynical calculations, as long assumed. The imperial army leadership analyzed its failure and developed a tactic from it, which was successfully used in 1917/18.
In 1916, German troops attacked France's strongest fortress. Ten months of battle will continue, more than 200,000 dead will be left behind – and trauma for two nations
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