The 1914 Christmas Truce (Part 1)
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Trenches of the Germans
The germans often had the better ground for the simple reason that, as war had progressed in the first few months. The high ground meant that the germans could make deeper trenches. A lot of trenches might only be three feet deep and then built up with three feet of sand bags. You can still be got by artillery, but its certainly much, much safer to move around in daytime if you can stay below the ground. So the trenches evolve. They they connect with other trenches, but it's still a long way from what we would think of as a very well organized, very almost geometric, proper trench which come later.
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