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The entrance to a German WWI tunnel which originates in a German underground city and courses underground towards the front line trenches. The tunnels often had electric lights and telephone lines. WWI was a modern war fought my modern people.

Probably carved by American soldiers in 1918, this underground space has a number of mask-like faces like this carved in stone.

Carving at the entryway of a German WWI underground city located near the former front line. The soldiers who occupied this place showed a bit of humor. Nearby is a carving that jokes about the soldier’s food

An ornately carved French mail box underground. This is where French soldiers in this underground city sent and received their mail.

Carving found near entrance to a German WWI underground city that seems to go on and on and on. These spaces pre-existed WWI by centuries. They were the quarries from which stone for castles, cathedrals and homes was mined. The subterranean geology of this part of France is generally quite stable leaving these places intact, frozen-in-time since the middle ages. When WWI came, many of them happened to be adjacent to the course of the Western Front.

On the left side of this fireplace is a carving of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. On the right side is Prince Franz Joseph of Austria. It was carved by a French WWI soldier and used by officers. During the war, it was in a closed room with a roof but these have long since been destroyed. It is in a very obscure location on private land in a forest on a hillside that was quite difficult to reach and then to find. The original metal grating at the bottom of the fireplace on which burning wood and hot coals once sat remains where it was left a hundred years ago. To my knowledge, there is nothing like this anywhere else on the former Western Front

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What emotions was the WWI soldier artist trying to convey? This carving is found in an underground city occupied by American soldiers during 1918.