NÉCROPOLE NATIONALE DE WISCHES
A place of remembrance that bears witness to the sacrifices made during the confrontations of 1914, reflecting French losses despite their successes.
The Wisches national necropolis, created in 1924, is home to 504 bodies of soldiers who fell in the fighting in the Bruche valley in August 1914. Witness to the fierce confrontations, it reflects the heavy losses despite the French successes. This site, typical of cemeteries at the start of the First World War, illustrates the treatment of the bodies of fallen soldiers, with individual graves for officers and collective graves for troops.
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