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Postcard map with of Verdun, France, showing the forts of Douaumont and Vaux and the German siege line.
Text:
Die Belagerung von Verdun (The Seige of Verdun).
Reverse:
Postkarte / Feldpostkarte, dated France, May (?) 26, 1916.

Postcard map with of Verdun, France, showing the forts of Douaumont and Vaux and the German siege line.

Image text

Die Belagerung von Verdun

The Seige of Verdun

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