Old Fortress

Abandoned pre World War One fortress in Lorraine (France). It’s closed but abandoned in the forest. The gun towers are exploded.

World War Battlefield

In the French Vosges, a mountain range near the German border, there can be found a lot of remnants from World War I. One of the most cruel and futile battles raged around a hill called "Hartmannsweilerkopf".

The once devastated landscape has long recovered but still there are many bunkers, dugouts and trenches.


Some zones which saw the hardest fighting and soaked the most blood are now transformed into memorials. Without any doubt that’s a good idea, but what I cannot understand, why they put there white crosses for they fallen French and black ones for the Germans. I don’t hope that they intend the crosses to proceed with that senseless fighting.

World War Ruins

Lots of photos of World War I ruins can be found on this German website. It’s not essential to read German to feel impressed by these immense ruins of the old fortifications at Verdun, Poland or the Alps.


more photos here