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Passage from 'Storm of STeel' by Ernst JUNGER 23rd Dec 1915

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Just though I'd post a diary entry of a German soldier in the trenches on today's date so we can compare it with our day today -

"Mud and filth are getting the better of us. This morning at three o'clock an enormous deposit came down at the entrance to my dugout. I had to employ three men, who were barely able to bale the water that poured like a freshet into my dugout. Our trench is drowning, the morass is now up to our navels, it's desperate. On the right edge of our frontage, another corpse has begun to appear, so far just the legs."
 
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