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Titled on negative ‘Concrete and Crosses – Hindenburg Line –‘
Printed by ‘W.53 Amex Photo Co. 574 Rue St. --- Paris’
Unsent.
Stains on corners where card was mounted in an album. Paper damaged on back, stains and smudges.
(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale)
The Hindenburg Line was a German defensive position of World War I, built during the winter of 1916–1917 on the Western Front, from Arras to Laffaux, near Soissons on the Aisne. In 1916, the German offensive at the Battle of Verdun had been a costly failure. The Anglo-French offensive at the Battle of the Somme had forced a defensive battle on the Germans, leaving the western armies exhausted. On the Eastern Front, the Brusilov Offensive had inflicted huge losses on the Austro-Hungarian armies in Russia and forced the Germans to take over more of the front. Construction of the Hindenburg Line in France was begun by the Germans in September 1916 to make a retirement from the Somme front possible as a means to counter an anticipated increase in the power of Anglo-French attacks in 1917.
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