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Fort Douaumont, before and after the Battle of Verdun, WW1, 1915-1916
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It was mostly abandoned when the French realised how little resistance similar structures in Belgium had offered to German heavy artillery. The Germans took it without much of a fight, then the French took it back a few months later much the same way.