Hidden World of WWI

National Geographic Photographer Jeff Gusky‘s Hidden World of World War I Photo of the Day. Learn more here:
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German bunker on the mountain battlefield at Tete du Violu on the Vosges front. #WWI

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Inside German bunker at Hartmannswillerkopf.
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German bunker with caricature of Bismarck located near the Swiss border. #WWI #Underground

Surgeon’s sink in the operating room of a small German field hospital on a mountainside at the Hartmannswillerkopf battlefield on the Vosges Front.
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Stairs emerging from a mountainside bunker into a steep trench cut out of rock at Hartmannswillerkopf on the Vosges Front. #WWI #Underground

Original WWI German swimming pool just behind the front lines of the Tête du Violu battlefield in the Vosges Mountains.
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Live shell found on the battlefield at Hartmanswillerkop on the Vosges Front. #WWI #Underground

Many places along the Western Front have been relatively untouched for the past century and reveal the unfathomable violence of WWI as seen here with this shell hole in Sanctuary Wood, Belgium.
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Not sure if the nail in head represents ghoulish satire or if it served a practical purpose. Soldiers suspended items off the floor to keep them out of reach of rats.
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Entryway to one of the abandoned WWI French forts that once formed a protective perimeter around the strategically important town of Verdun, France.
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