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Zone Rouge, an area near Verdun 460 square miles long in France, is still off-limits today due to a huge amount of unexploded ordnance left over from WW1. What happened to zones like this during WW2? Are there any records of soldiers injured or killed from buried Great War shells and explosives?

by /u/Nexlon in /r/AskHistorians

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