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RE: VERDUN - VILLAGES DÉTRUITS (DESTROYED VILLAGES) --- VERDUN - VILLAGES DÉTRUITS (ZERSTÖRTE DÖRFER)
it's very sad. but for what reason these villages were not restored?
it's very sad. but for what reason these villages were not restored?
This war was fought with all sorts of toxic gas and unimaginable amounts of artillery fire. So, after the war, the grounds were so toxic an full of blind shell that it was to dangerous and thus impossible to rebuild these villages.
We met an very old man sweeping the parking in front of the chapel in Douaumont.
He told us, his parents once lived in Douaumont. After the war they were resettled to Verdun. It was not an easy time, for his father, a farmer, had a lung injury from the war, which did not allow him to do his duty properly. He than had pneumonia every year and died in 1940. It's all so sad and this is one story in a thousand.
What impressed me, was, that his son, the very old man we met, still was sweeping voluntary the parking lot. He still has strong bounds with this place where he was born.