Scenes of horror revealed nearly a century later: archaeologists excavated a WWI German trench in France.
As with Roman Pompeii, these soldiers were killed instantly, and their bodies well preserved under material.
The men were part of a larger group of 34 who were buried alive when a huge Allied shell exploded above the tunnel in 1918, causing it to cave in...
Soldiers were discovered sitting upright on a bench, one was lying in his bed and another was in the foetal position having been thrown down a flight of stairs...
The whole site is quite large, seen from overhead:
(via Blogopsis)
The men were from the 6th Company of the “Reserve Infanterie Regiment 94.” Their bodies had been left in the dugout because retrieving them was deemed too dangerous. A total of 34 men in the shelter were killed in the attack. Troops managed to haul out 13 of the dead at the time.
Posted by: Business English Teacher | February 18, 2012 at 01:05