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Telephone handset used by German WWI soldiers in underground city

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I made this picture of an old bunker based off of a post from the blog hiddenwwi. He posts great photos of old world war one locations. Very interesting stuff. Thanks for taking a look! 

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If you’re not following @hiddenwwi, you should be.

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Photo by: Jeff Gusky @hiddenwwi | One hundred years ago, a human hand wrapped this barbed wire around this metal pigtail at the edge of a German trench. In the same place for a century, visitors to the Hartmannswillerkopf battlefield in the Vosges mountains of Southern Alsace can authentically touch the past as if WWI was yesterday. WWI haunts the present in more ways than just the abundant physical traces left behind. Dangerous myths about the power of modern science to perfect human nature are still with us. And the consequences are huge. To view more of my photographs of The Hidden World of WWI, please visit @hiddenwwi #wwi #history #photooftheday #picoftheday #instadaily #photo #igdaily #blackwhitephotography #instaart #hidden #secret #art #classic #igers #hiddenwwi #thephotosociety #memory #remember #nofilter #historyfeed #militaryhistory #France #Germany #warhistory #panzerkampfwagen #army #germanmilitary #panzer #worldoftanks #lifestyle #F4F #L4L #travel #adventure

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Photo by @jeff_gusky// It’s a bit surreal to find messages written by people who lived a century ago in places that are virtually unknown. This inscription, made by a German WWI tunneler, says “God strike England”. He also wishes German soldiers “Good Luck!” as they passed by on the way to fight in the trenches. This photograph is part of an 18 month exhibition of my work on The Hidden World of World War I at The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC http://tiny.cc/2vw6jy. #history #hiddenwwi #wwi #hidden #smithsonian #Europe #France #instafollow #followback #random

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Photo by: Jeff Gusky @hiddenwwi | Montfaucon is a hilltop in rural Northeast France that has been fought over in various wars for many centuries. Prior to WWI, a beautiful church existed here. It was destroyed in the fighting. The German Army built an observation tower out of stones from the church ruins and occupied this heavily fortified position through most of WWI. In September 1918, a poorly trained American unit was tasked with taking Montfaucon. They were initially decimated by poison gas and heavy artillery before gaining victory days later. Inaugurated in 1937 by President Franklin Roosevelt, the site is now an American monument administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission in Washington, DC. To view more of my photographs of The Hidden World of WWI, please visit @hiddenwwi
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Photo by @jeff_gusky// Inside an original WWI German bunker on the mountaintop battlefield of Hartmannswillerkopf, located on the Vosges front in Southern Alsace near the German and Swiss borders with France. In the distance beneath the clouds is Germany’s Black Forest. The image is a stitched panoramic created with a Canon 5DS body and Canon 24mm tilt shift lens. The printed photograph is approximately 20 feet wide and 8 feet high and is part of an 18 month exhibition of my photographs of The Hidden World of World War I at The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC http://tiny.cc/2vw6jy. #history #hiddenwwi #wwi #hidden #smithsonian #Europe #France #instafollow #adventure #lifestyle

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Photo by @jeff_gusky// This is war. This was once a human being. He died a century ago in World War I. He may have been American. He may have been French. He may have been German, or Italian or Czech. We will never know. He lies with the remains of 7,000 other young men whose bodies were so badly disfigured that their identities remain unknown. #history#hiddenwwi#wwi#hidden#smithsonian#europe#france #adventure #photo #FF

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@cmonboardphotography daily post featuring @hiddenwwi . Keep an eye on the CB #Photography website for fascinating photos and breathtaking moments .

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Photo by @jeff_gusky // “REMEMBER ME”: Duty called and I went to war...Though I’d never fired a gun before. I paid the price for your new day...As all my dreams were blown away. We all stood true as whistles blew...And faced the shell and stench of Hell. Now battle’s done, there is no sound...Our bones decay beneath the ground. We cannot see, or smell, or hear...There is no death, or hope or fear. Once we, like you, would laugh and talk...And run and walk and do the things that you all do. But now we lie in rows so neat...Beneath the soil, beneath your feet. In mud and gore and the blood of war...We fought and fell and move no more. Remember me, I am not dead...I’m just a voice within your head. by Harry Riley. This photograph is part of an 18 month exhibition of my work on The Hidden World of World War I at The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC http://tiny.cc/2vw6jy. #history #hiddenwwi #wwi #hidden #smithsonian #Europe #France http://ift.tt/2roft1N

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German WWI helmet left in WWI underground city occupied by French, then German, the French, then Americans.

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Photo by @hiddenwwi // This former World War I underground city now exists in complete darkness under a beautiful French farm field and no one but locals know that it’s there. A century ago, hundreds of young soldiers from New England found shelter here for about six weeks during World War I. Men fought and died on the farmland just outside this site. In modern times we come to believe that most knowledge can be found on the internet. What’s incredible about The Hidden World of World War I is that it remains largely unknown and is rarely mentioned on the internet. Part of the reason for this is that we must see things to believe that they are real. Dozens and dozens of places presently exist underground from World War I that have never been seen in modern times. They lie in silence and darkness beneath private French farmlands. They have never been photographed. Depicting them is technically challenging. This photograph was made using a complex technique to achieve Rembrandt type lighting in studio still life photography developed by the master photographer Harold Ross. I was fortunate to study with Harold and have adapted his techniques to the WWI underground. This site was featured in the recently aired Smithsonian Channel documentary “Americans Underground: Secret City of WWI”. It will air again on March 25th. This photograph will be part of an upcoming 19 month exhibition of my work at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.. The show opens April 6th. #history#hiddenwwi #wwi #hidden #smithsonian#europe #france #travel #L4L #F4F

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Photo by @hiddenwwi // This WWI underground city provided shelter for hundreds of young American soldiers from New England. They were modern people like us. They missed home, missed family and missed their girlfriends. We will never know if this soldier made it home to his girl. This underground city was an underground stone quarry for centuries before WWI. There is a beautiful carving of Saint Lawrence, created by quarryman in the 16th Century, that could easily be in a museum. The city is a hundred acres in size and lies beneath a beautiful French farm field. From the surface, you would never know it’s there. This site was featured in the recently aired Smithsonian Channel documentary “Americans Underground: Secret City of WWI”. The show will air again on March 25th. This photograph will be part of an upcoming 19 month exhibition of my work at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.. The show opens April 6th. #history#hiddenwwi#wwi#hidden#smithsonian#europe#france #FF #lifestyle #photooftheday #tagforlikes #travel

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Photo by: Jeff Gusky @hiddenwwi | Somewhere between 500,000 and a million men were killed or wounded in the WWI battle over the strategically important French town called Verdun. The battle of Verdun was a battle of attrition. Both sides sought to wear down their enemy to the point of collapse by causing never-ending losses of men and supplies. Human beings were fed into this killing machine in a contest to see which side would be depleted first. Human lives became a commodity . . . almost like putting fuel into your car’s gas tank. The value of human life became nil. Verdun was never taken by the Germans. This building on the Meuse river in Verdun was the French officers’ dining hall during WWI. To view more of my photographs of The Hidden World of WWI, please visit @hiddenwwi #wwi #history #photooftheday #picoftheday #instadaily #photo #igdaily #fineart #blackwhitephotography #instaart #hidden #secret #art #classic #igers #hiddenwwi #thephotosociety #memory #remember #nofilter #historyfeed #militaryhistory #france #french #adventure #random #photooftheday #lifestyle #F4F

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Photo by: Jeff Gusky @hiddenwwi | WWI was the world’s first encounter with modern mass destruction. The devastating potential of the new, high tech killing technologies deployed during WWI were unlike anything the world had ever seen. The surface of the earth became inhospitable to life. If human beings were anywhere near the location where a shell would strike, their bodies would often disappear without a trace, the power of the explosives were so immense. The only place to find safety was underground. This is the entryway into a German underground tunnel and bunker system located close to the front lines on the Tete Valou battlefield in the Vosges Mountains of southern Alsace. To view more of my photographs of The Hidden World of WWI, please visit @hiddenwwi #wwi #history #photooftheday #picoftheday #instadaily #photo #igdaily #fineart #blackwhitephotography #instaart #hidden #secret #art #classic #igers #hiddenwwi #thephotosociety #memory #remember #nofilter #historyfeed #militaryhistory #france #german #tagforlikes #L4L #photo #photooftheday

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Photo by Jeff Gusky @hiddenwwi | Australian photographer Frank Hurley photographed what is arguably the most famous photograph of WWI consisting of soldiers walking over wooden planks across a bombed out muddy landscape with trees reduced to splinters and smoke filling the air. The photograph is titled, “The Shell-Shattered Area of Chateau Wood, Flanders”. Based on the contour of the land in the background, some friends who are expert battlefield archeologists isolated the spot where the photograph was taken. Ironically, the spot is now contained within a large amusement park outside of Ypres, Belgium pictures in this post. When they created the amusement park, wagon after wagon of human battlefield remains were hauled away as they cleared the land to make the park. How ironic that the place where the most iconic photograph of “hell on earth” during WWI would later become an amusement park. To view more of my photographs of The Hidden World of WWI, please visit @hiddenwwi. #wwi #history #photooftheday #picoftheday #instadaily #photo #igdaily #fineart #blackwhitephotography #instaart #hidden #secret #art #classic #igers #hiddenwwi #thephotosociety #memory #remember #nofilter #historyfeed #militaryhistory #france #ruins #photooftheday #travel #amazing