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In Belgium's Flanders Fields a team of archaeologists are conducting an historic dig. They are uncovering two World War One trenches -- one Allied, one German. This is where trench warfare began, flourished and died in just four short years. Soon, these historic trenches will be paved over by highways and housing developments. But before the bulldozers arrive, a team of archaeologists have just ten days to find and save the weapons, tools and bones. Digging up the Trenches is a two-hour special that reveals each stage of trench warfare by focusing on the remarkable finds made by this unique excavation. As each rifle and artifact is unearthed, dramatic re-enactments show how these tools and weapons were used by soldiers 90 years ago. We see how men fired sniper rifles, reeled from artillery, and destroyed enemy machine gun nests. The result is a glimpse into how trenches helped define the progress of the entire war, starting as shallow rifle pits, and evolving to become vast underground fortresses housing thousands of men. Among the astounding discoveries found by the dig are the bones of four soldiers, believed to have died in the war's first gas attack. The archaeologists also find scores of bullets, live shells, underground shelters, and the scars left by mining tunnels. Historians and archaeologists at the dig are our guides. As each mud-coated artifact is cleaned off, historians like Peter Barton explain how it was used on this very spot 90 years ago. Archaeologists explain trench warfare tactics as they discover bones and rifles. Dramatic re-enactments show how these same artifacts were once the key to life and death struggles in these same trenches. Digging up the Trenches tells the remarkable story of a dig and a war defined by trenches. Trenches that were built as shelter against machine guns became so sophisticated that they were almost impossible to conquer. Understand the birth and death of these trenches, and you understand the war.
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lol the limey bastards with yellow teeth had to beg the US even this far back for back up because they were being owned by Germany. ;)
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trench warfare was invented in new zealand, Maori used trenches against the English during the land wars, it's true, research it.
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36:40 dose any one se the wolf in the background
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The perpirtrators got away with it.
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i would rather be forgotten than have my grave turned into a car park FFS
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Pask on pask.eriti vägivald.Sõda..😨
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battlefield 1 for real
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19,000 British soldiers died on that day - not 60,000.
The French lost 27,000 dead on a single day during the battle of the frontiers.
What was Germany's or Russia's or Italy's worst days..? -
Nine of the 10 towns and cities that lost the highest proportion of their population during the First World War are in Northern England and Scotland. 6 were Scottish towns, 4 English.
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Rip you were heroes but I hate that they diged up ever thing 😭
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never forget
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My great great grandfather was a Sargent and served at the Somme and he left verdin 7 days before the Germans invaded verdin in ww1
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Such a fucking disgusting slaughter of men, and for what? Banksters' greed.
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NEVER FORGET THEM!
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war is so stupid. governments send people to die so government can get bigger/stronger/richer. oh humanity
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even if some of them are digged out leave the place in peace...sure there are others still waiting for their soldiers grave
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i would not like to live in a building standing on a battlefield of ww 1...would have bad dreams in the night... all these bones coming up...and perhaps screams of the wounded...a haunted place...Logan Barnette is right
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Great build over a historical site being the final resting place of thousands.