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WWI 'tunnel of death' of 270 suffocated soldiers unearthed by amateur sleuth

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First World War soldiers has been found in a "tunnel of death" more than a century later.Amateur father and son historians Alain and Pierre Malinowski have made the biggest Great War discovery in France for decades by hunting down and exposing the tragic Winterberg tunnel.Built near the town of Craonne in Northern France, 270 men from Germany's 111st Reserve Infantry Regiment took their last breaths inside it after an explosion above ground left them trapped.A French shell detonated during the Second Battle of the Aisne in May 1917, exploded munitions at one end of the tunnel which blasted down toxic fumes, cutting it off from all oxygen over the next six days.

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