Skull of a German soldier at Verdun nicknamed 'The Crown Prince', serving as a point of reference for French soldiers at nighttime, 1916.
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 CΓ΄te 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 CΓ΄te 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 truth....