PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Illustrations of history@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoCutaway of a well-established Imperial German trench, WW1lemmy.worldimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down11
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minus-squaretiramichu@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·edit-29 months agoThis illustration makes it all look rather pleasant, rather than absolute hell
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·9 months agoNot enough pixels to show how infested with lice everyone is
minus-squareLuvs2Spuj@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 months agoI’ve heard stories about the allies being shocked by how nice the German trenches were when they captured them. Relatively speaking of course.
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoTo me, it makes me sad.
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoThere are no showers or toilets in the picture.
minus-squareAnticorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoThere were probably no showers or toilets IRL either.
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoThey dug latrines. At Isonzo, IIRC one side managed to flood the other’s trenches with their latrines, causing a ton of deaths from disease.
This illustration makes it all look rather pleasant, rather than absolute hell
Not enough pixels to show how infested with lice everyone is
I’ve heard stories about the allies being shocked by how nice the German trenches were when they captured them. Relatively speaking of course.
To me, it makes me sad.
There are no showers or toilets in the picture.
There were probably no showers or toilets IRL either.
They dug latrines. At Isonzo, IIRC one side managed to flood the other’s trenches with their latrines, causing a ton of deaths from disease.