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After the war more than 465 square miles of France were in the "Zone Rouge", and uninhabitable from the devastation, the thousands of animal and human corpses rotting there, and the millions of tons of unexploded ordnance buried in the soil. The Zone Rouge still exists, though it gets smaller each year. In parts of Belgium and northern France farmers are still obliged to have armor plate fitted to the bottom of their tractors, so they will not be killed when they plow up and detonate some long-buried unexploded artillery shell. Someone is still killed every year by these explosives.
See the map at the first related link below. You can trace the location of the trenches across France by following the red of the Zone Rouge. Click on the map for a larger view. Though not shown on the map the Somme River meanders between St. Quentin and Amiens. There is also a link near the bottom of this page to a PDF file "History of the Red Zone" in French, which you can translate for free at the second related link below.
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