"The Real “No-Go Zone” of France: A Forbidden" Topic
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Tango01  | 28 Mar 2025 5:24 p.m. PST |
…No Man's Land Poisoned by War
"When you imagine France and its scenic countryside, you might think of the picturesque villages, vineyards a plenty and endless rolling green hills to drive through on a blissful summer road trip. But there's one corner of this scenic country that no one has been allowed to enter for nearly a century, known as the "Zone Rouge" (the red zone).
Pictured above is an artist's impression of the forsaken territory, originally covering more than 1,200 square kilometres (460 sq miles) in the years following the Great War. Today, around 100km2 (roughly the size of Paris), is still strictly prohibited by law from public entry and agricultural use because of an impossible amount of human remains and unexploded chemical munitions yet to be recovered from the battlefields of both world wars…"
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| William Warner | 28 Mar 2025 6:58 p.m. PST |
I knew they were still finding bombs and shells, but I had no idea of the full extent of the problem. Very sobering indeed. |
| Tom Molon | 29 Mar 2025 6:58 a.m. PST |
The volume of what's been found would be absolutely unbelievable if it weren't so well documented. |
| Kuznetsov | 29 Mar 2025 11:07 a.m. PST |
The book "Aftermath: The Remnants of War" (https://a.co/d/0vbgMK0) has a chapter on this, and other interesting things about old battlefields. His description of how the accumulate all the shells they find and then pack them in a certain way to make sure the chemical shells are incinerated when they set them off underwater. |
| Tango01 | 29 Mar 2025 3:55 p.m. PST |
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 piper909 | 29 Mar 2025 9:05 p.m. PST |
Whoa. This is incredible.
I've been to Verdun and the Douaumont monument, extremely moving and poignant sites. But I didn't know about the Forbidden Zones until now. |
| 42flanker | 30 Mar 2025 6:33 a.m. PST |
There seems to be confusion as to whether the 'Zone Rouge' refers to areas where access is actually prohibited or more generally to zones of "maximimum devastation" (see map in article) which include the former. Looking at the map it is improbable that access is prohibited in the entirety of the area marked in red. |
| Tango01 | 30 Mar 2025 4:00 p.m. PST |
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| forrester | 31 Mar 2025 4:40 a.m. PST |
That's quite eerie Definitely a game or a ghost story in there somewhere. |
| Tango01 | 31 Mar 2025 4:08 p.m. PST |
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examines another pre-painted building for WWII.
