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A perfectly preserved WW1 German trench that was buried upon impact of a bomb, and remained undiscovered until recently. Great read with some awesome pictures. World War One, First World, Rome, Ww1 Photos, Western Front, The Great, Interesting History, Military History, World History

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The 'Pompeii' of the Western Front: Archaeologists find the bodies of 21 tragic World War One German soldiers in perfectly preserved trenches where they were buried alive by an Allied shell

The men were part of a larger group of 34 who were killed when a huge Allied shell exploded above the tunnel in the Alsace region of eastern France in 1918, causing it to cave in.

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A perfectly preserved WW1 German trench that was buried upon impact of a bomb, and remained undiscovered until recently. Great read with some awesome pictures.

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A perfectly preserved WW1 German trench that was buried upon impact of a bomb, and remained undiscovered until recently. Great read with some awesome pictures.

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