In other words, in this era where peace is the main background, many people have forgotten how cruel and terrible war is...
After looking at the following set of photos comparing the present and the past of the "battlefield", you will find that the killing brought by the war is gloomy, and it turns out that it really happened at the feet of each of us...
In 1944, at the Hunsfeld intersection in Belgium, a group of German soldiers were picking up the boots and other equipment of the fallen American soldiers...
In March 1945, Bonn, Germany, Friedrichstrasse, a dead soldier lay on the street, what a tragedy, the last people to die before the end of the war ...
September 21, 1944, Operation Market Garden, Battle of Nijmegen Bridge, armored vehicles and vehicles passing the bridge, in the foreground a Germany soldier, seems to have been squashed ...
The Road to the Sunken, at 7:30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme in World War I, the British lost more than 57,000 people on this day, and the British soldiers in the photo all died about half an hour later...
The "Tunnel of Death" in Winterberg, France, in 2021, a father and son historians found the buried tunnel through clues and dug up the remains of more than 270 German soldiers... After the tunnel was blown up in 1917, they lay inside for more than a century ...
On November 3, 1918, the battlefield of the Battle of Vittorio · Veneto in World War I, witnessing the last death struggle of Austria-Hungary, a ceasefire was reached on November 4, but unfortunately these people did not live for another 24 hours...
In October 1918, in the village of Exermont in France, an American soldier was seeking cover under German fire, next to a dead Germany soldier...... After more than 100 years, it is a quiet and peaceful atmosphere.
After more than a century, what has become of the Verdun meat grinder? Even after all these years, the scars on the ground still haven't healed, and you can still see the hellish trenches of those days...
On June 15, 1944, in the main square of Marche Square near Omaha Beach, American troops occupied the town, and a fallen German soldier lay in the square.
On D-Day D-Day, cattle were killed by shells in the yard of a farmhouse near a beach in Utah. Pictured below is the owner of the farm (taken in 2013), who was 19 years old when the Allies landed.
After the Normandy landings, a force of American troops was patrolling Hausville in Saint-Condimont, with a dead German soldier by the window...
On March 6, 1945, United States soldiers passed the body of a fallen German soldier in Cample-Lintford, as if they had seen nothing, and the war had made everyone numb to death...
In 1945, in Oberdora, Germany, American soldiers quickly rushed through an alley under the cover of tanks, because one American soldier had already been sniped...
France Cherbourg, Captain Earl Topley·, who led one of the first troops into the fallen city, pointed to the German and complained: "He killed three of my men."
In Dieppe, France, on the eve of the Normandy landings, the Allies organized a failed landing battle, due to insufficient understanding of the complexity of the landing battle, the Allies paid expensive "tuition", more than 5,800 casualties.
The main force of this battle was the Canada army, the British losses were relatively small, it is rumored that this was the United Kingdom in order to test the possibility of landing under high-intensity defense, so they deliberately leaked information to the Germans, and the Canada were basically slaughtered by machine guns...
The "Bloody Alley" of the Battle of Antitam in the United States Civil War, 1862 vs present. The largest single-day battle in United States history, with 5,500 killed in three hours, was called the bloodiest day in United States history.
Confederate artillerymen who died in front of Dunk Chapel in Sharpsburg, Maryland, during the United States Civil War, 1862, which is still in operation.
Devil's Lair, Gettysburg, 1863, a federal sniper killed during the United States Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War in the United States, with about 50,000 killed on both sides.
On a street corner in Stavrot, Belgium, imagine that countless people come and go, but no one knows that the life of a young German soldier is forever fixed at this moment on January 2, 1945...
On May 10, 1940, in the Battle of Greyberg in the Netherlands, several Netherlands soldiers lay on the road, dying defending their homeland... And now it's peaceful, as if nothing has happened...
Battle of Arnhem, Allied Command: Halltenstein Airborne Museum, as part of Operation Market Garden, the United Kingdom Airborne Division was never able to capture the Germany-controlled Arnhem Bridge, and the Allied casualties reached 2,000, which was later adapted into the movie "The Distant Bridge".
In 1944, after ambushing an American army, the SS captured a large wave of cigarettes and was voraciously smoking...
Granmenil, Belgium, after the Battle of the Bulge, a German Leopard tank dumped on the side of the road, which was probably destroyed by a P-47.
The deadliest place on earth, Ypres, Belgium, during World War I, about 400,000 people died on both sides of the three battles of Ypres, and poison gas was used for the first time in the second battle. I don't know how many bodies were buried under these asphalt cement ...
Then again, since the birth of human civilization, war has never gone away...
Every piece of land you pass under your feet may have passed through people who died in war...
Dust to dust, dust to dust...