Zone rouge
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The Zone rouge is a chain of non-contiguous areas throughout northeastern France that the French government isolated after the First World War. The land, which originally covered more than 1,200 squar
A German trench at Delville Wood, near Longueval (Somme), that was destroyed in 1916 in the Zone rouge
Verdun battlefield showing bombturbation (2005)
Fleury-devant-Douaumont
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Fleury-devant-Douaumont is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Zone rouge
…and millions of items of unexploded ordnance contaminating the land. Some towns and villages were never permitted to be rebuilt after the war, such as Fleury-devant-Douaumont. As part of war reparations, Pinus nigra trees sent by Austria were planted in some parts of the zone. World War I's massive scale of industrially…
Photo from Fleury-devant-Douaumont in June 1916
Image from the site of the village in 2019, with plaques showing the locations of buildings