Fort Douaumont

metropolitan France · France

Fort Douaumont, France
Photo: historicair 11:41, 15 October 2006 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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The largest of the forts ringing Verdun, its concrete carapace and armoured turrets were fiercely contested in 1916. The scarred, half-buried structure remains a stark monument to industrial siege warfare.

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