110 Years Later, the Somme Beats the Heart of Memory

Mittelstand Cafe

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The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. is involved with French and British partner organizations in the commemoration of the dead of the First World War, who died in France. With 24 young people from France, Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany. Eight from each country participate in this common trinational youth encounter. 110 years ago the First World War raged in Europe.

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Photo by Laury Vandenterghem from the Somme Tourisme website. A week of memory at the heart of the battlefields. One hundred and ten years after the outbreak of the offensive of 1 July 1916, the Somme is about to pay an exceptional tribute to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who fell on its territory. Throughout the first week of July, the high places of memory _ Beaumont-Hamel, La Boisselle, Contalmaison, Thiepval, Rancourt, Fricourt or Al…