Students of 3° were particularly impressed by the Douaumont ossuary, the huge size of the cemetery and the apocalyptic vision of the battlefield around the Douaumont Fort. This week-end will remain etched in their memory.
Students discovered the most famous sites of the biggest battlefield in contemporary history.
They had a moving visit of the Douaumont ossuary that holds the unidentified remains of 130 000 soldiers, French and German. They also visited the underground fortress of Verdun, and then the Douaumont Fort that allows to understand the organization of the soldiers’ life, and they finished with the visit of the battlefields and the trenches.
