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Michael Novakhov retweeted: On this day in 1916, Germany abandons its 10-month campaign to “bleed France white” at Verdun. The French suffer nearly 400,000 casualties, while an estimated 350,000 Germans are killed, wounded or missing. “Hell cannot be so terrible,” records one French eyewitness.

Michael Novakhov retweeted:

On this day in 1916, Germany abandons its 10-month campaign to “bleed France white” at Verdun. The French suffer nearly 400,000 casualties, while an estimated 350,000 Germans are killed, wounded or missing. “Hell cannot be so terrible,” records one French eyewitness.

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Michael Novakhov retweeted:

On this day in 1916, Germany abandons its 10-month campaign to “bleed France white” at Verdun. The French suffer nearly 400,000 casualties, while an estimated 350,000 Germans are killed, wounded or missing. “Hell cannot be so terrible,” records one French eyewitness.

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