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Unbelievably horrible.
If the trench wasn't frozen, it was a festering sewer, with deep mud, human waste, rats that would actually eat a defenseless injured man and just about any disease you'd care to name running rampant through it.
If you didn't change your soaked socks often enough you got Trenchfoot, which kills tissue. (Your feet rot off)
If you spent any time looking up over the edge to see the churned, blasted outside world, you were shot by enemy snipers.
Poison gas was used by both sides - which killed you at worst, and maimed you permanently at best.
In France where most of the fighting took place, the trenches were cut into the surrounding farmland, so the bacteria that lives in manure (fertilizer) was everywhere in the soil.
Wounds often resulted in what was called "Gas Gangrene", which was caused by this bacteria. The injured part (like your whole leg) would turn green and swell up as it began to decompose.
In between times, you would be required to charge the enemy trenches in large attacks.
The new wonder weapon - the Machine Gun - could kill thousands of men at once. Tens of thousands of soldiers were cut down by machine-gun fire during charges.
WWI has a good claim to have the most terrible conditions under which any war was ever fought.
- S.M.
What else can I help you with?
What lighting did they have in the trenches during ww1?
There were electric light in German trenches in WW1 because they were more advanced and had better trenches than the British.
What was trench warfare in ww1?
fighting in trenches
When were the trenches made in WW1?
November 1914
What wire was used to protect ww1 trenches?
Barbed wire was used to protect the trenches.
What are the condition of life in the trenches?
You can learn about what life was like in the trenches during WW1 by looking to the links below .
What lighting did they have in the trenches during ww1?
There were electric light in German trenches in WW1 because they were more advanced and had better trenches than the British.
What does the trenches mean in World War 1?
they fought in the trenches ww1 was known as a war in the trenches
Was big ben bombed during ww1?
no
What was trench warfare in ww1?
fighting in trenches
What have maori's invented?
Trenches used in WW1
Was life bad in the trenches in ww1?
yes
When were the trenches made in WW1?
November 1914
What wire was used to protect ww1 trenches?
Barbed wire was used to protect the trenches.
What were the night raids like in the trenches ww1?
bad
What did they eat in the trenches in ww1?
rats and dead bodies
How were soldiers expected to fight in ww1 in the trenches?
Safer
Did German ww1 trenches have barbed wire?
maybe
