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Verdun 100 years after the First World War (World 2017, by Rolf Neeser) - Swiss Press Award

Verdun Douaumont Beinhaus Olivier Gérard
Verdun Douaumont Beinhaus Olivier Gérard
Photo / World
2017

Verdun 100 years after the First World War

Rolf Neeser

In the "Hell of Verdun," the most gruesome part of the front line of World War I, over 300,000 German and French soldiers died in 1916. On Sunday, February 21, exactly 100 years ago, the massacre began. We met the man on the battlefield who is the only one still living with the dead. "I am the 'Guardian of the Dead,'" he says, looking over where he lives with his children.

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Photo / World
2017

Rolf Neeser

In the "Hell of Verdun," the most gruesome part of the front line of World War I, over 300,000 German and French soldiers died in 1916. On Sunday, February 21, exactly 100 years ago, the massacre began. We met the man on the battlefield who is the only one still living with the dead. "I am the 'Guardian of the Dead,'" he says, looking over where he lives with his children.

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