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| The principal memorial to the carnage stands in the middle of the battlefield a short distance along the D913 beyond Fleury. It is the Ossuaire de Douaumont, a vast and surreal structure with the stark simplicity of a Romanesque crypt or a Carolingian sarcophagus, from which rises a central tower shaped like a projectile aimed at the heavens. |
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