100 Years Ago The Slaughter Started At Verdun – IOTW Report

100 Years Ago The Slaughter Started At Verdun

With the Western Front in stalemate in 1916, the German High Command decided the best strategy was to bleed the other side into collapse.

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They choose the fortified town of Verdun, a locale that the French would have to defend for pride and Paris.

10 months and nearly a million casualties later, both sides where exhausted.

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What the British at the Somme is to war’s futility, Verdun is to outright slaughter.

6 Comments on 100 Years Ago The Slaughter Started At Verdun

  1. A battle that resulted in more lives lost than anyone today knows about. This is a fact that should be known to all but sadly our “Education” system does not provide this information. It is also indicative of the slaughter of the twentieth century and the ignorance of the twenty-first century.

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