France's Red Zones

[Slick]

I am familiar with the UXO problems they have in those parts but was unaware of the pollution and abandonment of entire villages. So maybe not a "PLACES TO VISIT", but yea, I'd love to go. Bonus, a couple of nice collections in the pics.

http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/...nce-a-forbidden-no-mans-land-poisoned-by-war/

 

[roller63]

Very interesting article, thanks for sharing it.

 

[skull181]

I agree, a very interesting read. Sad to see war is still destroying the Countryside, for years to come.

 

[Yodamaster]

I had the "chance" to can visit the remains of the five destroyed villages of the Camp de Suies, wich is a military camp.
Very impressive !
http://www.cndp.fr/crdp-reims/memoire/lieux/1GM_CA/villages_detruits/01villages.htm


Yoda

 

[AMMOTECHXT]

I visited the Verdun area several times in 1984-85. A track led to Fleury, a `village detruit', recognisable in the trees only by low mounds of smashed brick and tile that clattered underfoot between shell craters. In one small clearing I came across the remains of about 200 stick grenades that had been quietly rotting away for nearly 70 years. Elsewhere nearby were French grenades and some large collapsed shelters that had been dug into the side of a bank. The shelters were made of large sheets of curved corrugated metal. There was also a more modern military range, perhaps the one mentioned by Yodamaster. I remember seeing a wheeled armoured car with some kind of projectile embedded in one of the tyres.

 

[Fusse2004]

In the forest from Fleury