A Day Trip To The Verdun Battlefield | Euro Trip 2018 Pt8
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- We take a day trip to the site of the Battle of Verdun, to The Ossuary memorial, the destroyed village of Douaumont, and to Fort Douaumont,
From Wikipedia:
During the 300 days of the Battle of Verdun (21 February 1916 - 19 December 1916) approximately 230,000 men died out of a total of 700,000 casualties (dead, wounded and missing). The battle became known in German as Die Hölle von Verdun (English: The Hell of Verdun), or in French as L'Enfer de Verdun, and was conducted on a battlefield covering less than 20 square kilometers
The ossuary is a memorial containing the remains of both French and German soldiers who died on the Verdun battlefield. Through small outside windows, the skeletal remains of at least 130,000 unidentified combatants of both nations can be seen filling up alcoves at the lower edge of the building.
Douaumont is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. The village was destroyed during World War I.
Fort Douaumont (French Fort de Douaumont) was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive works which had protected the city of Verdun, France since the 1890s. By 1915, the French General Staff had concluded that even the best-protected forts of Verdun could not resist bombardments from the German 420 mm (16.5 in) Gamma guns. These new super-heavy howitzers had easily taken several large Belgian forts out of action in August 1914. Fort Douaumont and other Verdun forts were judged ineffective and had been partly disarmed and left virtually undefended since 1915. On 25 February 1916, Fort Douaumont was entered and occupied without a fight by a small German raiding party comprising only 19 officers and 79 men. The easy fall of Fort Douaumont, only three days after the beginning of the Battle of Verdun, shocked the French Army. It set the stage for the rest of a battle which lasted nine months, at enormous human cost. Douaumont was finally recaptured by three infantry divisions of the Second Army, during the First Offensive Battle of Verdun on 24 October 1916. This event brought closure to the battle in 1916.
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Very Moving Bob and Jenny, all those lives lost. We have never been but thanks for sharing.
I never tire of such emotional trips thank you both👍
Oh wow so many lives my Grand Father was in Burma the forgotten army he only told me snippets like the raids in London saw a few photos of him in Burma but he never took his medals and never spoke of it , he was under some secret acts that are only coming to light now one is for 100 years after the war , just to add he kept all our family together and my Favourite man in the world
I would absolutely love to go to Verdun and see and experience all the history there. It’s so beautiful and peaceful now, it’s hard to imagine the absolute horror that it was and I am sure that everyone that goes there can feel the heaviness of what happened there.
It was very moving.
Yet another video packed with information. The atmosphere was oozing round every corner, especially the marks on the gun tops outside.
Thank you and keep up the good work..
Regards,
Michael
Bob and Jenny, thanks for taking the time to video this for us all to enjoy and appreciate. As others have said, this is one of your best. Looking forward to seeing more soon.
A.
Thanks a lot, appreciated
Best blog yet in my humble opinion Bob and Jenny,really well made and very interesting. Looking forward to watching the rest of your trip.
Thank you, once again a brilliant video, full of history, and so respectful. Stay Safe.
Really interesting Vlog again Bob and Jenny. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻🙂
Well done you two ,yet again such an informative vlog👌
I could feel the atmosphere of the war graves and churches ect .
Looking like bagettes rule on this tour 😄thank you both 👍💕
Enjoyed that trip out very much thankyou.
That was so interesting it does us all good to remember those dear souls. Another great video. Enjoy xx
Another great vlog bob Jenny they just get better and better 👍👍👍
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Well done fab trip.
The Quality of your contents is brilliant.
Why thank you.
Ho bob and Jenny loving your videos weather looks great there I wouldn't rush back to the UK weather is crappie here what time does it start to get dark over there now do u use electric hook up over there or rely on solar power all the best .kev
Thanks for yiur comments. It gets dark about 8pm here, we are an hour ahead of you. All the sites we have gone to have electric hook up.
If you ever go back to verdun you should go into the citadel there , very impressive
Thanks, perhaps we will.
So cute when you put your arm around her.
Hi Bob, we’ve enjoyed watching your trip so far. One question: you don’t seem to use levellers for your motor home, don’t you find them necessary
We are sat here, Thursday, with torrential rain after the storm winds, with the same to look forward to on Friday ? Make the most of the good weather ! Have been looking at the split air conditioning systems for Motorhomes/Caravans priced at about £650, portable systems ? May be worth looking for at the NEC show ? Do not know much about the History of the First World War but can be very sentimental if you have family ties. My grandad was gassed in the trenches , what a horrific place to be. Know that the Germans were very good builders, this fort battlement just goes to prove that right, pity about the political believes of the German people during the first and second world wars ? You are right, you could spent a lot of time going round these battlefields, maybe a good idea to have courses for the younger generation to do a tour, away from modern technology, i-phones, tablets etc !
Colin Humphries my grandad and his brothers were in the First World War. My grandad was wounded and captured at the Third Battle of Ypres/Ieper on 31/07/1917 when 75% of his Regiment ( Hertfordshire) was either killed wounded or captured. Have recently found his POW records and discovered he was treated at a hospital in Belgium and then taken to a camp at Limburg in Germany.
Strange we we're just talking about air con, as it was hot when we stopped at Duoaumount. The 12v/240v ones are incredibly expensive, around £3000, whereas the 240v only are much cheaper, but you can't use then when you're off grid. Interesting to have a look at the NEC.
when we had a motorhome we planned to stay the night on the area as darkness fell we thought better of it its a real creepy place
I imagine, we stayed a night two years ago by the Thiepval Museum, that was spooky.
we left the Battlefield in Verdun and went to a village to stay the night when we woke in the morning we were right next to a French Cemetery lol the place is full of death But so worth doing the British Battle fields don't have the same feeling as Verdun its a place on its own you Massiges is worth seeing we were there last week its a good visit
you should invest in a bike rack and 2 electric pedal assist bikes next time maybe so parking isn't hard to do. Just a thought
Something I have thought about
You really didn't need the first seven minutes of the video
Thanks for the feedback
3:44 cute shitzu poodle dog like as jess
That's Tara, my sister's Cava-schon.
Lovely trip, even if the subject matter was about destroyed villages. On the plus side, I did like that Citroen parked behind your RV.
Thanks, that was a Traction Avant, first front wheel car if I'm not mistaken.