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© Stéphane Compoint
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Battles of Champagne: The Hand of Massiges. From autumn 1914, the German retreat to this natural height, located at the junction of fronts of Champagne and Argonne. Its shape resembles as a hand, each "finger" being a bastion of this natural defense. Besides the remains of trenches, wooden cross, accurately assembled as were during the war, in emergency (note the "bottle to the ground" at the foot of the cross, enclosing a message to help identify dead later). Main field of Massiges remained in the state, with its funnels mines and trenches of fighting in 1914 and 1915, restored in recent years by a small local association.
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