Skull of a German soldier at Verdun nicknamed 'The Crown Prince', serving as a point of reference for French soldiers at nighttime, 1916.
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Skull of a German soldier at Verdun nicknamed 'The Crown Prince', serving as a point of reference for French soldiers at nighttime, 1916. The following is the diary entry of 21-year-old Danish-German soldier I.J.I Bergholt, reporting on the conditions of the German frontlines at Le Mort Homme and Côte 304 at Verdun in May 1917. Translated by myself: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "The following is the diary entry of 21-year-old Danish-German soldier I.J.I Bergholt, reporting on the conditions of the German frontlines at Le Mort Homme (Dead Man's Hill) and Côte 304 (Hill 304) at Verdun in May 1917. Translated by myself: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Zum Schlachthof des deutschen Kronprinzen, Hohe 304" (Towards the slaughterhouse of the German Crown Prince, Hill 304). That was the inscription on a sign, which one morning had been placed at the entrance of a trench leading up to that hill. . It was obviously removed immediately, but never before has an inscription been this close to the tru...