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“I don’t want to imagine their screams” – historian recounts carnage of WWI battlefield in Alsace

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As the world marks 100 years since the start of World War I, euronews reporter Rudolph Herbert has been visiting Hartmann Hill in Alsace.

The hill – also known as Le Vieil Armand – was hotly-disputed by the French and Germans.

Gerd Krumeich, German historian and expert on the war, said: “Here at Hartmann they really fought eye for eye and tooth for tooth. It’s a place that is highly-charged, emotionally. I do not want to imagine their screams. They were hitting, cutting each other with spades,…
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