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Trench Warfare was a costly way to wage war because it was essentially a 400 mile long Stalemate. The Trenches were essentially the Central Powers digging to maintain what Territorial Gains they had won during the initial offensive, and the Allied Forces attempting to Reclaim lost ground.

What developed was a Network of Trenches on each side, with Machine Guns on the Front Lines and High Explosive Artillery Shells raining down Shrapnel Overhead.

The French did not even have time to bury their dead and sometimes decomposing bodies would stay in the Trench for Months with Soldiers fighting desperately for survival.

Not to mention that this was before the Geneva Convention outlawed the Use of Gas Warfare, which brings the horrifying aspect of being Gassed in the Trenches. (This happened to Hitler, who was Austrian, not German.)

Trench warfare was Brutal and death was everywhere. It lasted like that for four years until Germany Surrendered on False Pretenses under Starvation.

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