The wounded of the Battle of Verdun
Many men returned from the war blind, maimed, burned with flamethrowers, hit by a bombing or gone mad. They are called the "broken faces".
Wounded physical
I'll bring the words of one nurse assigned to the dressing station of Hill 304 and Dead-man
"Men roam the yard hungry, wild-eyed"
"They are there, ripped, shredded, horrible "
This shows that soldiers wounded in combat Were in very bad shape.
The wounded received care very rudimentary, and few are those who have gone to a hospital in the rear. The soldiers who needed an operation, were made a few hundred meters from the front.
surgeon says as: "When the injury was too great, it was finally cut with scissors for amputation," of course it does there was no anéthésie, with the exception of a few injections of morphine .
Moreover, the soldiers are happy to be in hospital because during this time they are not on the front.
Wounded psychological
of hairy nerves are strained, because of the noise of the shells. Of traumatized soldiers lose their reason so the view of other mutilated bodies is appalling.
A soldier who was wounded by a grenade a few minutes previously tried to climb the hill to hide when a shell he fell over. The body flew and fell completely decomposed. A great scene to see the other soldiers.
Work done in the library. (Leah, Charlotte, Agatha and William)
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