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Telephone handset used by German WWI soldiers in underground city

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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 @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 @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 | 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 | 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

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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 #L4L #instafollow #lifestyle

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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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Cigar box left by WWI soldiers a century ago in this underground city. The colors on the box’s illustration are still vibrant.

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Live bullets left by WWI soldiers a century ago in this underground city

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Carving of a deer by German WWI soldiers

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“Stairway to hell” connecting an underground city to the trenches above

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Ornate carving created by a WWI French engineering company. It’s about 6 feet high.

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American flag and cross carved by American WWI soldier