Vauquois
"First we walk to the german section of the tunnels.
We visit about one kilometer of the German tunnels, it
is posible to visit about 7 kilometers
of the tunnels
(these are in good shape) and if you want you can explore
more deeper tunnels. The tunnels are 60 meterīs under
the top of the hill.Later we visit the
French section of the hill,
and there you can see the difference between digging,
building and living in the two sections.
Sometimes the space between the German and French tunnels
was no more than six meters.
Interesting was also the way they build the tunnels and rooms,
everything was under the
ground,toilets,shower-rooms,sleeping
baraks and a medical section to.
If you realise that some of the soldiers stayed there for almost
two years (most of the time under the
ground)and that each site
lost about 10.000 soldiers,the story becoms inbeliveble."
If you will visit
the "Tunnels of Vauquois" iīl have a name off a guide,
her name is Ingrid Ferrand and she speaks German,English and
French.
Ingrid Ferrand
Limpire-Aux-Bois
55100 Verdun
Tel: (33) 03 29 87 63 47
Fax: (33) 03 29 85 70 81
E-mail: INGRID.ferrand@wanadoo.fr
The price is about 250 FF for a group (max. of six persons)."
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A big thankīs to Eric for his contribution!
( if you have more photos Eric, you know where to send them....)
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Vauquois 
Haut lieu de la guerre des mines (14-18)
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