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WWI: Revisiting Verdun, 100 Years Later

WWI: Revisiting Verdun, 100 Years Later

02.17.2016

Looking back at the Battle of Verdun, during which 300,000 French and German soldiers were killed. Over the past century, the legacy of this battle, a symbol of the horror and absurdity of war, has profoundly changed, as historians Antoine Prost and Gerd Krumeich explain.

About this video
Original title:
Verdun, a franco-german myth
Production year:
2016
Length:
4 min 54
Director:
Marie Mora Chevais
Producer:
CNRS Images
Speaker(s) :
Antoine Prost
Centre d’histoire sociale du XXe siècle
Université Paris 1 - CNRS
 
 
Gerd Krumeich
Université of Dusseldorf 

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