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Verdun
Today, the hellish Battle of Verdun is a symbol of the industrialization of warfare and of the horrors, futility and inhumanity of the First World War. There are now 40 French and 30 German military cemeteries on the former battlefield and a total of 170,000 dead are buried there - killed in one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War.