Autentic - The Great Underground War Series 1 (2021) Part 3 Vauquois Hill of Death


Autentic - The Great Underground War Series 1 (2021) Part 3 Vauquois Hill of Death

The Great Underground War Series 1

A five-part series that explores the forgotten story of the incredible engineering feats and secret survival techniques of five legendary battles fought underground during World War I. This fascinating series unearths the story about how the Great War went on underground.

forums.mvgroup.org_release.images_harry65_undergd_203.jpg Part 3 Vauquois Hill of Death

For three years the Germans and French blew each other up with massive explosions, using a maze of underground galleries and tunnels. The whole story is told through the preserved diaries of Herman Hoppe, a German engineer who built many of the tunnels.

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Snippet from Wikipedia: Vauquois

Vauquois (French pronunciation: [vokwa]) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

During World War 1, Vauquois was the site of violent mine warfare, also in connection with the Battle of Verdun (1916). From 1915 to 1918, French and German tunneling units fired 519 separate mines at Vauquois, and the German gallery network beneath the village hill (the Butte de Vauquois) grew to a length of 17 kilometres (11 mi). Vauquois was destroyed and many huge craters and dugouts remain.

The French papyrologist Jean Maspero (1885–1915) died in Vauquois, as did biologist Auguste Chaillou.

See also

  • Communes of the Meuse department

References

External links

  • From The Air - Butte de Vauquois, Steven Upton, 2016, YouTube

Further reading

  • Triplet, William S. (2000). Ferrell, Robert H. (ed.). A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press. pp. 160-61, 163, 166–71, 183, 187.


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