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Ypres 1914: The First Trench

Serre 1915: Brothers in Death

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Loos 1915: The Underground War

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Passchendaele 1917: Drowning in Mud

Finding the Fallen

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2005

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Loos 1915: The Underground War

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Jan 1, 2005

Tunnels and craters in the heart of a French coalfield hide horrors from the First World War. More than 50,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded here in a hellish battle that moved underground. Our team of archaeologists, historians, and forensic experts is here to excavate the lip of a gigantic crater that was created by a massive underground explosion. They discover a mass grave and, within the burial site, clues to one of the fallen soldiers, a German from Bavaria. A simple uniform button, a regiment number on an epaulette, and a postcard inside a music book, lead to the identity of this soldier: a gifted violinist named Leopold Rotharmel turned warrior in the German unit that would later be called the Storm Troopers.

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Finding the Fallen

TV Series

2005

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Loos 1915: The Underground War

Season 1 · Episode 3 · Jan 1, 2005

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