Stellungskrieg im Weltkrieg

Summary

Part 1: Post building, setting up a post, life in the trenches. Troops marching to their post; nightly entrenchment work; life in German and French posts; morning wash, mail delivery, French sniper, food fetcher, delousing; line check in trench; mountain position in the Vosges in winter 1917; damming of a sappe; preparatory gas defense; artillery observer in front trench; aerial photograph of a funnel field with trenches; gas shelling.  

Part 2: Attack and defense in static battle. Attack: preparatory fire; shearing of assault alleys before attack; infantry assault; drumfire and shell impacts. Defense: Heavy sustained fire; food fetch; repulse of French infantry attack; German counterattack; prisoners brought in; English tank attack, infantry advance under cover of tanks; destruction of a tank by throwing forward a concentrated charge.  

Part 3: shock troop operations. Preparatory fire of German artillery and abandonment of dugouts; advance work of a shock troop through funnel terrain and through enemy wire obstacles; rolling up of enemy trenches; return of shock troop after successful enterprise.  

Part 4: Mine warfare. Mining of tunnels; laying of electric detonating cable; mine blasting in connection with a shock troop enterprise; occupation of the blast hopper; work parties follow the shock troopers with material to expand the hopper.  

Source: Bundesarchiv