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Cutaway of a well-established Imperial German trench, WW1 (lemmy.world)
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[–] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are no showers or toilets in the picture.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There were probably no showers or toilets IRL either.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

They dug latrines. At Isonzo, IIRC one side managed to flood the other's trenches with their latrines, causing a ton of deaths from disease.