World War I: a different kind of war took place at Vauquois, France: thousands of dead died in the fighting, much of which took place underground. This documentary covers the fighting at the Hill of Death in Vauquois, France during the First World War. An entire town as well as thousands of people were victims of more than 500 blasts in the underground tunnel systems.

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Topics in this video: ▼
00:00 Intro
00:52 Vauquois
05:27 Interview Dieter Storz
16:51 New twist 1916
21:26 Life in the tunnel
33:19 The dispute escalates

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World War I: A hundred years have passed since the outbreak - but it's still hard to grasp the scale and folly of the bloodbath. This documentary covers the war underground around Vauquois, occupied by the Germans since late summer 1914 - in the village, some 40 km from Verdun, the warring parties detonated no fewer than 539 explosives.

The village disappeared from the face of the earth, the surrounding landscape a wasteland with hundreds of explosion craters. To this day, many tons of high explosives are stored underground.

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