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wow. it's an amazing opportunity to see pictures like this.

The bloke on the left is thinking 'if he falls off, this is going straight on to youtube. As soon as they invent it.'

From I Was a German, autobiography of Ernst Toller (1933): "One night we heard a cry, the cry of one in excruciating pain; then all was quiet again. Someone in his death agony, we thought. But an hour later the cry came again. It never ceased the whole night. Nor the following night. Naked and inarticulate the cry persisted. We could not tell whether it came from the throat of German or Frenchman. It existed in its own right, an agonized indictment of heaven and earth. We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries. "Later we learned that it was one of our own [German] men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves. We prayed desperately for his death. He took so long about it, and if he went on much longer we should go mad. But on the third day his cries were stopped by death."  

what a poignant passage. . . . .cool picture. . . .cell phone indeed. . .Willy

Thanks for sharing this historical picture.

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I'm sure that he was just thrilled to be standing in the water and mud . Allies were ordered not to give up any ground ( that dictated were the tranches were placed ) , on the other hand Germans were opting for high ground to keep them relatively dry. Guess were all the stuff from German trenches end up ?


“ And kind old King George
Sent Mother a note
When he heard that father was gone.
It was, I recall,
In the form of a scroll,
With gold leaf and all.
And I found it one day
In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away.
And my eyes still grow damp to remember
His Majesty signed
With his own rubber stamp. “
Pink Floyd

The fence looks the same in the POW Camps PWTE A-1 Rheinberg and PWTE A-4 Büderich near Wesel.